bactéria
/bɐˈk.tɛ.ɾjɐ/
The verdict
“bactéria” is a moderately-common Portuguese word, ranked #15,996 in Portuguese word frequency and used as a noun.
- #15,996
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 8
- letters
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - organismos unicelulares pertencentes ao reino monera podendo ser encontrados na forma isolada ou em colônias; são constituídos somente por uma célula sem um verdadeiro núcleo celular nem organelos ...
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 | bactéria |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /bɐˈk.tɛ.ɾjɐ/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #15,996 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “bactéria” sits in Portuguese frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for bactéria is 8 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /bɐˈk.tɛ.ɾjɐ/. Corpus data places it at rank #15,996 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "organismos unicelulares pertencentes ao reino monera podendo ser encontrados na forma isolada ou em colônias; são constituídos somente por uma célula sem um verdadeiro núcleo celular nem organelos ...".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for bactéria, with forms such as "abctéria", "bacctéria", and "bactréia". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "batera", "bateria", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 bactéria, spelled B-A-C-T-É-R-I-A.
Definition
- 1organismos unicelulares pertencentes ao reino monera podendo ser encontrados na forma isolada ou em colônias; são constituídos somente por uma célula sem um verdadeiro núcleo celular nem organelos membranosos
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: abctéria,bacctéria,bactréia,bacttéria,bactéira,bactérai,bactérria,bacétria,batcéria,bbactéria,bcatéria
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of bactéria - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Using “bactéria”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is B-A-C-T-É-R-I-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /bɐˈk.tɛ.ɾjɐ/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “batera” - see the side-by-side comparison. bactéria vs batera
- Browse more Portuguese words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Portuguese words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.