bus
Letters
3 characters
Frequency Rank
#4,683
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
bus is aSpanishnoun. It means: Vehículo automotor para pasajeros de gran capacidad y recorrido fijo dentro de una urbe. Pronounced [ˈbus]. It ranks #4,683 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with by and but.
| 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) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for bus is 3 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈbus]. Corpus data places it at rank #4,683 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for bus in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Spanish patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "by", "but", "bye", 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 bus, spelled B-U-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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.
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Frequency rank: #4,683 in Spanish
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