bulo
Spanish, noun/ˈbulo/
bulo is spelled B-U-L-O (4 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written Spanish, the 52,113th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Bulo is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “canard, hoax (false or misleading report or story, especially if deliberately so)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Variante de bulín (departamento)”.
What does bulo mean in English?
noun
- 1
Spainmasculinecanard, hoax (false or misleading report or story, especially if deliberately so)
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Variante de bulín (departamento).
noun: 1. Noticia falsa difundida, cuya finalidad es negativa.
The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.
Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of bulo
- bulos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce bulo?
- /ˈbulo/
- [ˈbu.lo]
- [ˈbulo]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to bulo
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is bulo in Spanish?
bulo appears about once in every 2 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).