bad
/bɑt/
The verdict
“bad” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #4,699) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #4,699
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 840
- “B” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - banho
Corpus desk
Index PT-bad · bad · Portuguese
bad · rank #4,699 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #4,699
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 840
- PHOTO-FINISH app
Nearest frequency peer: app (-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.
Vizinhos de frequência do confusável “bad”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- aborto
aborto
95,313 corpus weight
- admitir
admitir
95,311 corpus weight
- age
age
95,309 corpus weight
- app
app
95,306 corpus weight
- bad
bad
95,302 corpus weight
- celebrar
celebrar
95,294 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “bad” 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 | bad |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /bɑt/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #4,699 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “bad”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for bad is neighbouring look-alikes ("by", "BR", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced /bɑt/. Frequency #4,699 among 840 “B” headwords. Gloss: "banho".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for bad, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. 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.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 bad, spelled B-A-D.
Definition
- 1banho
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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