bacana

adj

Letters

6 characters

Frequency Rank

#5,600

in Portuguese word usage

Misspellings

8

tracked variants

Confusables

8

similar word pairs

bacana is anPortugueseadj. It means: excelente, interessante, bom It ranks #5,600 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with bacia and bacon.

Key facts for bacana
PropertyValue
Headwordbacana
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechAdj
Letters6
Frequency rank#5,600
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs8
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of bacana in Portuguese word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for bacana is 6 letters long, classified as anadj. Corpus data places it at rank #5,600 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "excelente, interessante, bom".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for bacana, with forms such as "abcana", "baacna", and "bacaan". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 8 confusable-pair relationships, "bacia", "bacon", "batata", 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 Portuguese form is bacana, spelled B-A-C-A-N-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    excelente, interessante, bom

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: abcana,baacna,bacaan,bacanna,baccana,bacnaa,bbacana,bcaana

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for bacana

Misspelling Variants of "bacana"

abcana6baacna6bacaan6bacanna7baccana7bacnaa6bbacana7bcaana6
Misspelling Variants of "bacana"

Frequency rank: #5,600 in Portuguese

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "bacana"?
"bacana" is spelled B-A-C-A-N-A.
What does "bacana" mean?
As an adj, "bacana" means: excelente, interessante, bom
What words are commonly confused with "bacana"?
"bacana" is commonly confused with "bacia", "bacon", "batata". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "bacana" come from?
"bacana" is a Portuguese word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Nearby Portuguese words

Other entries that begin with the letter B in our Portuguese index:

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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.