Bahia
/ba.ˈi.a/
The verdict
“Bahia” has 6 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #1,422. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,422
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 2,073
- “B” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - estado brasileiro localizado no sul da Região Nordeste do Brasil, o quarto mais populoso do país; é o Estado que mais faz divisa com outros Estados, possuindo um total de oito Estados limítrofes, q...
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 | Bahia |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ba.ˈi.a/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #1,422 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Bahia” sits in Portuguese frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around Bahia (IPA /ba.ˈi.a/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #1,422 among 2,073 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "estado brasileiro localizado no sul da Região Nordeste do Brasil, o quarto mais populoso do país; é o Estado que mais faz divisa com outros Estados, possuindo um total de oito Estados limítrofes, q...".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for Bahia, with forms such as "abhia", "bahai", and "bahhia". 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, "bia", "bai", "bala", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is Bahia, spelled B-A-H-I-A.
Definition
- 1estado brasileiro localizado no sul da Região Nordeste do Brasil, o quarto mais populoso do país; é o Estado que mais faz divisa com outros Estados, possuindo um total de oito Estados limítrofes, que são Alagoas, Sergipe, Pernambuco, Piauí, ao norte; Minas Gerais e Espírito Santo ao sul; Goiás e Tocantins ao oeste; ao leste, possui divisa com o Oceano Atlântico; sua capital é Salvador
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- abhia
- bahai
- bahhia
- baiha
- bbahia
- bhaia
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Bahia - 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 “Bahia”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is B-A-H-I-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ba.ˈi.a/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “bia” - see the side-by-side comparison. Bahia vs bia
- Browse more Portuguese words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Portuguese words
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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.