bug
[ˈbuɣ̞]
The verdict
“bug” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #24,762) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #24,762
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 2,459
- “B” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Error, defecto o anomalía en el código de un programa informático.
Corpus desk
Index ES-bug · bug · Spanish
bug · rank #24,762 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #24,762
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,459
- PHOTO-FINISH bondades
Nearest frequency peer: bondades (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Vecinos de frecuencia del confusable “bug”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- bolitas
bolitas
75,242 corpus weight
- bolo
bolo
75,241 corpus weight
- bondades
bondades
75,240 corpus weight
- bug
bug
75,239 corpus weight
- callan
callan
75,238 corpus weight
- caminas
caminas
75,237 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “bug” frente a los lemas españoles más cercanos por rango, no un reprint del escritorio de confusables.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bug |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈbuɣ̞] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #24,762 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “bug”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for bug is neighbouring look-alikes ("by", "bus", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [ˈbuɣ̞]. Frequency #24,762 among 2,459 “B” headwords. Gloss: "Error, defecto o anomalía en el código de un programa informático.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for bug, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Spanish rules. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "by", "bus", "but", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Spanish form is bug, spelled B-U-G.
Definition
- 1Error, defecto o anomalía en el código de un programa informático.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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