baleia
/bɐ.ˈlɐj.ɐ/
The verdict
“baleia” has 7 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #9,007. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #9,007
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 840
- “B” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 11
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - qualquer dos grandes mamíferos marítimos da ordem Cetacea
Corpus desk
Index PT-baleia · baleia · Portuguese
baleia · rank #9,007 · 7 variants · 11 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,007
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 11 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 840
- PHOTO-FINISH Balança
Nearest frequency peer: Balança (-1 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 “baleia”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- ausente
ausente
90,997 corpus weight
- aviação
aviação
90,996 corpus weight
- Balança
Balança
90,995 corpus weight
- baleia
baleia
90,994 corpus weight
- cacau
cacau
90,991 corpus weight
- cano
cano
90,988 corpus weight
What this shows “baleia” 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 | baleia |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /bɐ.ˈlɐj.ɐ/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #9,007 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “baleia”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around baleia (IPA /bɐ.ˈlɐj.ɐ/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #9,007 among 840 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for baleia, with forms such as "ableia", "baelia", and "baleai". 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 11 confusable-pair relationships, "bali", "beleza", "boleia", 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 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 baleia, spelled B-A-L-E-I-A.
Definition
- 1qualquer dos grandes mamíferos marítimos da ordem Cetacea
- 2especificamente, os grandes mamíferos marítimos da subordem Mysticeti
- 3pessoa muito gorda
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how baleia appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Um grupo de fazendeiros de Seattle, no estado americano de Washington, não conseguiu reverter a proteção dada às baleias orcas por leis de preservação de animais.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ableia
- baelia
- baleai
- baliea
- balleia
- bbaleia
- blaeia
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of baleia - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).