buque
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#6,381
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
10
similar word pairs
buque is aSpanishnoun. It means: Barco de gran tamaño usado como nave de guerra, transporte o comercio a grandes distancias. Pronounced [ˈbuke]. It ranks #6,381 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with buques and busqué.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | buque |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈbuke] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #6,381 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for buque is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈbuke]. Corpus data places it at rank #6,381 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for buque, with forms such as "bbuque", "bquue", and "buqeu". 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 10 confusable-pair relationships, "buques", "busqué", "busquen", 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 buque, spelled B-U-Q-U-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Barco de gran tamaño usado como nave de guerra, transporte o comercio a grandes distancias.
- 2Armazón de una nave, excluyendo los aparejos y máquinas.
- 3Capacidad para contener de alguna cosa.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: bbuque,bquue,buqeu,buqque,buuqe,ubque,vuque
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for buque
Misspelling Variants of "buque"
Frequency rank: #6,381 in Spanish
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