B
The verdict
“B” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #734) as a symbol. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #734
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 840
- “B” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - letra do alfabeto latino
Corpus desk
Index PT-b · B · Portuguese
B · rank #734 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #734
- LEN-SHORT 1 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 840
- PHOTO-FINISH acontecer
Nearest frequency peer: acontecer (-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.
Vizinhos de frequência do confusável “B”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- versão
versão
99,270 corpus weight
- vitória
vitória
99,269 corpus weight
- acontecer
acontecer
99,268 corpus weight
- B
B
99,267 corpus weight
- canal
canal
99,265 corpus weight
- Carlos
Carlos
99,264 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “B” face aos lemas portugueses mais próximos por rank, não um reprint da secretária de confusáveis.
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 | B |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Symbol |
| Letters | 1 |
| Frequency rank | #734 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “B”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for B is neighbouring look-alikes ("by", "BR", …), not just typos; it is asymbol. Frequency #734 among 840 “B” headwords. 7 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for B, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "by", "BR", "bi", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Portuguese form is B, spelled B.
Definition
- 1letra do alfabeto latino
- 2décimo segundo algarismo do sistema hexadecimal
- 3símbolo de boro, elemento químico
- 4símbolo de indução magnética
- 5sinal representante da nota si
- 6símbolo do acorde de si maior ou da sua tonalidade, a qual contém cinco sustenidos na sua armadura de clave
- 7byte
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how B appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
B é a segunda letra e primeira consoante do alfabeto na língua portuguesa.
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 Portuguese corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.