bak
/ˈbaːk/
The verdict
“bak” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #38,589) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #38,589
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 840
- “B” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - retaguarda, parte traseira
Corpus desk
Index PT-bak · bak · Portuguese
bak · rank #38,589 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #38,589
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 840
- PHOTO-FINISH balnear
Nearest frequency peer: balnear (+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.
Vizinhos de frequência do confusável “bak”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- arritmia
arritmia
61,418 corpus weight
- arrojado
arrojado
61,417 corpus weight
- Astana
Astana
61,416 corpus weight
- bak
bak
61,412 corpus weight
- balnear
balnear
61,410 corpus weight
- beato
beato
61,406 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “bak” 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 | bak |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈbaːk/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #38,589 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “bak”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for bak is neighbouring look-alikes ("by", "BR", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced /ˈbaːk/. Frequency #38,589 among 840 “B” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
bak doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Portuguese rules. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "by", "BR", "bi", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Portuguese form is bak, spelled B-A-K.
Definition
- 1retaguarda, parte traseira
- 2costas, espaldas
Antonyms
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).