back
The verdict
“back” has 6 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #4,042. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #4,042
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 840
- “B” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - cigarro de maconha; beque
Corpus desk
Index PT-back · back · Portuguese
back · rank #4,042 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #4,042
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 840
- PHOTO-FINISH autonomia
Nearest frequency peer: autonomia (-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.
Pares de rank junto ao íman ortográfico “back”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- anel
anel
95,964 corpus weight
- are
are
95,963 corpus weight
- autonomia
autonomia
95,960 corpus weight
- back
back
95,959 corpus weight
- bispo
bispo
95,956 corpus weight
- brilho
brilho
95,955 corpus weight
What this shows “back” 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 | back |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #4,042 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “back”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around back, anoun. Corpus frequency is #4,042 among 840 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "cigarro de maconha; beque".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for back, with forms such as "abck", "bacck", and "backk". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "bar", "bad", "ban", 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 any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Portuguese form is back, spelled B-A-C-K.
Definition
- 1cigarro de maconha; beque
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how back appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Tora: Um back muito grande
fumar um back
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- abck
- bacck
- backk
- bakc
- bback
- bcak
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of back - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).