babado
/baˈba.du/
The verdict
“babado” has 8 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #31,249. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #31,249
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 840
- “B” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 13
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - molhado com baba
Corpus desk
Index PT-babado · babado · Portuguese
babado · rank #31,249 · 8 variants · 13 confusables
- FREQ-MID #31,249
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 13 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 840
- PHOTO-FINISH basket
Nearest frequency peer: basket (+4 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.
Pares de rank junto ao íman ortográfico “babado”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- apoderar
apoderar
68,766 corpus weight
- babado
babado
68,752 corpus weight
- basket
basket
68,748 corpus weight
- baço
baço
68,747 corpus weight
- begin
begin
68,746 corpus weight
- biênio
biênio
68,742 corpus weight
What this shows “babado” está entre estes pares FrequencyWords; a profundidade de typo mede-se à parte no gráfico de distância de edição.
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 | babado |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /baˈba.du/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #31,249 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 13 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “babado”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around babado (IPA /baˈba.du/), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #31,249 among 840 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for babado, with forms such as "abbado", "baabdo", and "babaddo". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 13 confusable-pair relationships, "balão", "barão", "babar", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Portuguese form is babado, spelled B-A-B-A-D-O.
Definition
- 1molhado com baba
- 2apaixonado, enamorado
- 3que se acha embevecido, orgulhoso
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- abbado
- baabdo
- babaddo
- babaod
- babbado
- babdao
- bbaado
- bbabado
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of babado - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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.
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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "babado", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).