bum
[ˈbũm]
The verdict
“bum” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #34,919) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #34,919
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 2,459
- “B” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Indica o imita el ruido de un golpe o de una explosión.
Corpus desk
Index ES-bum · bum · Spanish
bum · rank #34,919 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #34,919
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,459
- PHOTO-FINISH Bulnes
Nearest frequency peer: Bulnes (-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 “bum”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- bucear
bucear
65,085 corpus weight
- Bulnes
Bulnes
65,083 corpus weight
- bum
bum
65,082 corpus weight
- buscada
buscada
65,081 corpus weight
- caduca
caduca
65,080 corpus weight
- Calatayud
Calatayud
65,079 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “bum” 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 | bum |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈbũm] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #34,919 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “bum”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for bum is neighbouring look-alikes ("by", "bus", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [ˈbũm]. Frequency #34,919 among 2,459 “B” headwords. Gloss: "Indica o imita el ruido de un golpe o de una explosión.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for bum in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "by", "bus", "but", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Spanish form is bum, spelled B-U-M.
Definition
- 1Indica o imita el ruido de un golpe o de una explosión.
This word in other languages
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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