búfalo

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for búfalo is 6 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈbufalo]. Corpus data places it at rank #27,124 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Mamífero artiodáctilo de la familia de los bóvidos (Bovidae). Poblaba las planicies de toda Norteamérica desde el norte de México, interior de Estados Unidos, y hasta Canadá. Tiene un pelaje de col...".

Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for búfalo, with forms such as "bbúfalo", "bfúalo", and "búaflo". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "Buffalo", "búfalos", "búscalo", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Spanish form is búfalo, spelled B-Ú-F-A-L-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.