bainha
/bɐ.ˈi.ɲɐ/
The verdict
“bainha” has 8 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #30,011. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #30,011
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 840
- “B” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 11
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - estojo de metal ou couro onde se enfia a lâmina de uma arma branca
Corpus desk
Index PT-bainha · bainha · Portuguese
bainha · rank #30,011 · 8 variants · 11 confusables
- FREQ-MID #30,011
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 11 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 840
- PHOTO-FINISH autenticação
Nearest frequency peer: autenticação (-2 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.
Pares de rank junto ao íman ortográfico “bainha”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- arão
arão
69,997 corpus weight
- autenticação
autenticação
69,992 corpus weight
- bainha
bainha
69,990 corpus weight
- batalhar
batalhar
69,987 corpus weight
- battlefield
battlefield
69,986 corpus weight
- beginning
beginning
69,985 corpus weight
What this shows “bainha” está entre estes pares FrequencyWords; a profundidade de typo mede-se à parte no gráfico de distância de edição.
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 | bainha |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /bɐ.ˈi.ɲɐ/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #30,011 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “bainha”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around bainha (IPA /bɐ.ˈi.ɲɐ/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #30,011 among 840 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for bainha, with forms such as "abinha", "baihna", and "bainah". 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 11 confusable-pair relationships, "banda", "baixa", "banho", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Portuguese form is bainha, spelled B-A-I-N-H-A.
Definition
- 1estojo de metal ou couro onde se enfia a lâmina de uma arma branca
- 2costura dobrada na extremidade do tecido
- 3parte da folha das plantas vasculares em que esta se prende ao caule
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- abinha
- baihna
- bainah
- bainhha
- bainnha
- baniha
- bbainha
- bianha
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of bainha - 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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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "bainha", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).