baía
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#7,499
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
4
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
baía is aPortuguesenoun. It means: acidente geográfico em que uma porção de mar avança para dentro do continente, como se estivesse sendo abocanhada; é maior do que a enseada e menor do que o golfo Pronounced /bɐ.ˈi.ɐ/. It ranks #7,499 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with bi and boa.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | baía |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /bɐ.ˈi.ɐ/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #7,499 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for baía is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /bɐ.ˈi.ɐ/. Corpus data places it at rank #7,499 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 4 documented wrong-spelling variants for baía, with forms such as "abía", "baaí", and "bbaía". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "bi", "boa", "bar", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Portuguese form is baía, spelled B-A-Í-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1acidente geográfico em que uma porção de mar avança para dentro do continente, como se estivesse sendo abocanhada; é maior do que a enseada e menor do que o golfo
- 2porto de boca estreita; ver sinonímia de porto
- 3qualquer recôncavo na costa marítima em que é possível aportar
- 4lagoa interligada a um rio por meio de um canal
- 5canal para drenar pântanos
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: abía,baaí,bbaía,bíaa
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for baía
Misspelling Variants of "baía"
Frequency rank: #7,499 in Portuguese
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