balão
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#7,601
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
balão is aPortuguesenoun. It means: recipiente de forma oval que, cheio de um fluido mais leve que o ar, flutua sem auxílio de um sistema de propulsão It ranks #7,601 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with belo and bola.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | balão |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #7,601 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for balão is 5 letters long, classified as anoun. Corpus data places it at rank #7,601 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for balão, with forms such as "ablão", "ballão", and "baloã". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "belo", "bola", "bela", 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 balão, spelled B-A-L-Ã-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1recipiente de forma oval que, cheio de um fluido mais leve que o ar, flutua sem auxílio de um sistema de propulsão
- 2brinquedo de látex que imita o formato de um balão usado para decoração, sobretudo de festas; bexiga
- 3recipiente de vidro de forma esférica utilizado em laboratórios
- 4qualquer objeto de forma esférica
- 5cruzamento circular entre ruas ou estradas
- 6figura usada nas histórias em quadrinho na qual aparecem as falas das personagens
- 7jogada de futebol no qual o jogador chuta a bola para o alto, sem muita preocupação com a direção, com o intuito de afastá-la e eliminar um perigo imediato
- 8ato de não cumprir com comparecimento conforme firmado, combinado, estabelecido
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ablão,ballão,baloã,baãlo,bbalão,blaão
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for balão
Misspelling Variants of "balão"
Frequency rank: #7,601 in Portuguese
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