Holbox
The verdict
“Holbox” is an uncommon Spanish word, ranked #95,299 in Spanish word frequency and used as a proper noun.
- #95,299
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 6
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Isla localizada en el extremo norte del estado de Quintana Roo, México. Esta localizada a diez kilómetros de la costa de la Península de Yucatán en las coordenadas 21º 31’ 24” de latitud norte y lo...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Holbox |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [xolˈβ̞oʃ] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #95,299 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Holbox” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for Holbox is 6 letters long, classified as a proper noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [xolˈβ̞oʃ]. Corpus data places it at rank #95,299 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Isla localizada en el extremo norte del estado de Quintana Roo, México. Esta localizada a diez kilómetros de la costa de la Península de Yucatán en las coordenadas 21º 31’ 24” de latitud norte y lo...".
No misspelling variants are generated for Holbox in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 Holbox, spelled H-O-L-B-O-X, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Isla localizada en el extremo norte del estado de Quintana Roo, México. Esta localizada a diez kilómetros de la costa de la Península de Yucatán en las coordenadas 21º 31’ 24” de latitud norte y los 87º 22’ 42” de longitud oeste y a una altitud de 10 metros sobre el nivel del mar.
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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Using “Holbox”
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- The one correct Spanish spelling is H-O-L-B-O-X - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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