bus
[ˈbus]
The verdict
“bus” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #4,683) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #4,683
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 2,459
- “B” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Vehículo automotor para pasajeros de gran capacidad y recorrido fijo dentro de una urbe.
Corpus desk
Index ES-bus · bus · Spanish
bus · rank #4,683 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #4,683
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,459
- PHOTO-FINISH brasileño
Nearest frequency peer: brasileño (-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 “bus”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- bienvenidos
bienvenidos
95,321 corpus weight
- blancas
blancas
95,320 corpus weight
- brasileño
brasileño
95,319 corpus weight
- bus
bus
95,318 corpus weight
- capítulos
capítulos
95,317 corpus weight
- Chris
Chris
95,315 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “bus” 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 | bus |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈbus] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #4,683 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “bus”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for bus is neighbouring look-alikes ("by", "but", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [ˈbus]. Frequency #4,683 among 2,459 “B” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for bus, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "by", "but", "bye", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Spanish form is bus, spelled B-U-S.
Definition
- 1Vehículo automotor para pasajeros de gran capacidad y recorrido fijo dentro de una urbe.
- 2Vehículo para pasajeros de gran capacidad que une diferentes poblaciones.
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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