bai
/ba.ˈi/
The verdict
“bai” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #27,371) as a preposition. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #27,371
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 840
- “B” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - de acordo com; conforme
Corpus desk
Index PT-bai · bai · Portuguese
bai · rank #27,371 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #27,371
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 840
- PHOTO-FINISH autódromo
Nearest frequency peer: autódromo (-5 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 “bai”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- arm
arm
72,646 corpus weight
- autodetermi…
autodeterminação
72,636 corpus weight
- autódromo
autódromo
72,635 corpus weight
- bai
bai
72,630 corpus weight
- cassado
cassado
72,610 corpus weight
- catch
catch
72,609 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “bai” 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 | bai |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Preposition |
| IPA | /ba.ˈi/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #27,371 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “bai”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for bai is neighbouring look-alikes ("by", "BR", …), not just typos; it is apreposition pronounced /ba.ˈi/. Frequency #27,371 among 840 “B” headwords. Gloss: "de acordo com; conforme".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for bai, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. 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 headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Portuguese form is bai, spelled B-A-I.
Definition
- 1de acordo com; conforme
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bai appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Bai vip ola, okömobs odelo.
Bai sev oba, dabinons buks alsotik in bukem.
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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Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).