balística
The verdict
“balística” has 13 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #42,798. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #42,798
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 2,073
- “B” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - ciência que estuda o movimento dos projéteis, seu comportamento no interior das armas de fogo e no espaço exterior a elas
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | balística |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #42,798 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “balística” sits in Portuguese frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around balística, anoun. Corpus frequency is #42,798 among 2,073 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for balística, with forms such as "ablística", "ballística", and "balsítica". 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. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented 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 balística, spelled B-A-L-Í-S-T-I-C-A.
Definition
- 1ciência que estuda o movimento dos projéteis, seu comportamento no interior das armas de fogo e no espaço exterior a elas
- 2estudo comparativo de armas, munições e projéteis para fins periciais
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ablística
- ballística
- balsítica
- balísitca
- balísstica
- balístcia
- balístiac
- balísticca
- balísttica
- balítsica
- baílstica
- bbalística
- blaística
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of balística - 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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Using “balística”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is B-A-L-Í-S-T-I-C-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.