bulto
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#15,792
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
bulto is aSpanishnoun. It means: Paquete o bolsa grande que se emplea para el transporte de mercancía, especialmente el mayorista, o para el equipaje en los viajes. Pronounced [ˈbul̪t̪o]. Often confused with but and buzo.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bulto |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈbul̪t̪o] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #15,792 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for bulto is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈbul̪t̪o]. Corpus data places it at rank #15,792 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 10 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 bulto, with forms such as "bbulto", "bluto", and "bullto". 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, "but", "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 bulto, spelled B-U-L-T-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Paquete o bolsa grande que se emplea para el transporte de mercancía, especialmente el mayorista, o para el equipaje en los viajes.
- 2Cualquier cuerpo cuya naturaleza no se distingue, por estar muy lejos o cubierto, o por falta de luz.
- 3Hinchazón o elevación que se hace en la superficie de algo, por ejemplo en la piel tras un golpe fuerte.
- 4Cantidad o volumen de algo, en particular si no son exactos.
- 5Obra de arte en tres dimensiones, modelada, tallada o esculpida en algún material relativamente durable, como la piedra o la madera, y que no se limita a ser una figura en relieve o en bajorrelieve.
- 6Cantidad considerable de cosas juntas, arrumadas o atadas (como tierra, ropa, billetes, etc.).
- 7Relieve que forman los genitales masculinos cuando se lleva ropa ceñida.
- 8Maleta pequeña o cartera de mano en que se llevan papeles, libros, portátiles, etc.
- 9Cosa que se dice sin ser del todo verdad, en particular la dirigida a darse prestigio a uno mismo.
- 10Bolsa de material resistente sujeta a la espalda
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: bbulto,bluto,bullto,bulot,bultto,butlo,ublto,vulto
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for bulto
Misspelling Variants of "bulto"
Frequency rank: #15,792 in Spanish
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