baía
/bɐ.ˈi.ɐ/
The verdict
“baía” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #7,499) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #7,499
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 2,073
- “B” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - 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
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 | 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) |
Where “baía” sits in Portuguese frequency
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for baía is neighbouring look-alikes ("bi", "boa", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced /bɐ.ˈi.ɐ/. Frequency #7,499 among 2,073 “B” headwords. 5 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for baía, with forms such as "abía", "baaí", and "bbaía". 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, "bi", "boa", "bar", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Portuguese form is baía, spelled B-A-Í-A.
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
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- abía
- baaí
- bbaía
- bíaa
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of baía - 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 “baía”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is B-A-Í-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /bɐ.ˈi.ɐ/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “bi” - see the side-by-side comparison. baía vs bi
- Browse more Portuguese words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Portuguese words
Words at a similar Portuguese frequency
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.