bulk
/bʌlk/
The verdict
“bulk” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #86,544 among 2,459 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,544
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 2,459
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Al granel.
Corpus desk
Index ES-bulk · bulk · Spanish
bulk · rank #86,544 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,544
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,459
- PHOTO-FINISH bullas
Nearest frequency peer: bullas (+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.
Long-tail ranks near “bulk”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- brindados
brindados
13,462 corpus weight
- bulk
bulk
13,457 corpus weight
- bullas
bullas
13,456 corpus weight
- Buril
Buril
13,455 corpus weight
- butrón
butrón
13,454 corpus weight
- bávaros
bávaros
13,452 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “bulk” sits against similarly uncommon Spanish ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bulk |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /bʌlk/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #86,544 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Dónde se sitúa “bulk” en la frecuencia del español
Rare enough to double-check
bulk is uncommon Spanish at frequency #86,544 among 2,459 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /bʌlk/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 6 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for bulk, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct Spanish form is bulk, spelled B-U-L-K.
Definition
- 1Al granel.
- 2Al por mayor.
- 3Grueso.
- 4La mayor parte, el grueso de algo, la mayoría.
- 5Corpulencia, peso, tamaño, masa, volumen.
- 6Fibra muscular o comestible.
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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