bulbo
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#42,307
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
bulbo is aSpanishnoun. It means: Órgano de almacenamiento de nutrientes, generalmente subterráneo, que forma una yema abultada, como las de la cebolla y el apio. Pronounced [ˈbulβ̞o]. Often confused with bull and buzo.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bulbo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈbulβ̞o] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #42,307 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for bulbo is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈbulβ̞o]. Corpus data places it at rank #42,307 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for bulbo, with forms such as "bbulbo", "blubo", and "bublo". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "bull", "buzo", "buró", 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 bulbo, spelled B-U-L-B-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Órgano de almacenamiento de nutrientes, generalmente subterráneo, que forma una yema abultada, como las de la cebolla y el apio.
- 2Objeto, especialmente de vidrio como en bombillas y termómetros, con forma redondeada similar a la de muchos bulbos₁.
- 3Componente electrónico utilizado para amplificar, conmutar, o modificar una señal eléctrica mediante el control del movimiento de los electrones en un espacio "vacío" a muy baja presión, o en presencia de gases especialmente seleccionados. Técnicamente se le conoce como válvula termoiónica.
- 4Pequeño frasco o recipiente que contiene una dosis de líquido y está acondicionado para insertar en él una jeringa con el fin de inyectar su contenido.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: bbulbo,blubo,bublo,bulbbo,bullbo,bulob,ublbo,vulvo
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "bulbo"
Frequency rank: #42,307 in Spanish
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