buñuelo
[buˈɲwelo]
The verdict
“buñuelo” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #79,838 among 2,459 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,838
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 2,459
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Alimento compuesto de masa de harina que se fríe en abundante aceite. La masa puede prepararse con agua, leche, huevo o levadura. Pueden llevar un relleno salado o dulce.
Corpus desk
Index ES-bunuelo · buñuelo · Spanish
buñuelo · rank #79,838 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,838
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,459
- PHOTO-FINISH bético
Nearest frequency peer: bético (+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.
Rangos de cola larga cerca de “buñuelo”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- breviario
breviario
20,168 corpus weight
- buñuelo
buñuelo
20,163 corpus weight
- bético
bético
20,162 corpus weight
- calvinistas
calvinistas
20,157 corpus weight
- cambiándose
cambiándose
20,156 corpus weight
- caminaremos
caminaremos
20,155 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “buñuelo” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | buñuelo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [buˈɲwelo] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #79,838 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “buñuelo” en español
Rare enough to double-check
buñuelo is uncommon Spanish at frequency #79,838 among 2,459 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [buˈɲwelo]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Alimento compuesto de masa de harina que se fríe en abundante aceite. La masa puede prepararse con agua, leche, huevo o levadura. Pueden llevar un relleno salado o dulce.".
buñuelo has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is buñuelo, spelled B-U-Ñ-U-E-L-O.
Definition
- 1Alimento compuesto de masa de harina que se fríe en abundante aceite. La masa puede prepararse con agua, leche, huevo o levadura. Pueden llevar un relleno salado o dulce.
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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