bah
The verdict
“bah” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #30,437) as an interjection. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #30,437
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 840
- “B” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - expressa espanto ou admiração
Corpus desk
Index PT-bah · bah · Portuguese
bah · rank #30,437 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #30,437
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 840
- PHOTO-FINISH baião
Nearest frequency peer: baião (+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.
Vizinhos de frequência do confusável “bah”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- aspirina
aspirina
69,572 corpus weight
- avental
avental
69,566 corpus weight
- bah
bah
69,564 corpus weight
- baião
baião
69,563 corpus weight
- beneficiame…
beneficiamento
69,560 corpus weight
- benevolente
benevolente
69,559 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “bah” 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 | bah |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #30,437 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “bah”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for bah is neighbouring look-alikes ("by", "BR", …), not just typos; it is aninterjection. Frequency #30,437 among 840 “B” headwords. Gloss: "expressa espanto ou admiração".
No generated misspelling entries exist for bah in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Portuguese patterns. 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.
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 bah, spelled B-A-H.
Definition
- 1expressa espanto ou admiração
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bah appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Bah! Mas que tombo feio que tu levaste, tchê!
Bah! Mas que cavalo lindo!
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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.
Frequently Asked Questions
How do you spell "bah"?
What does "bah" mean?
What words are commonly confused with "bah"?
What language does "bah" come from?
Is PlainSpell free to use?
Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "bah", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).