ballet
/balɛt/.
The verdict
“ballet” has 7 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #13,226. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #13,226
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 840
- “B” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - balé
Corpus desk
Index PT-ballet · ballet · Portuguese
ballet · rank #13,226 · 7 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #13,226
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 840
- PHOTO-FINISH avisado
Nearest frequency peer: avisado (-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 “ballet”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- arrasar
arrasar
86,781 corpus weight
- atirador
atirador
86,778 corpus weight
- avisado
avisado
86,776 corpus weight
- ballet
ballet
86,775 corpus weight
- basquetebol
basquetebol
86,774 corpus weight
- Bauru
Bauru
86,772 corpus weight
What this shows “ballet” 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 | ballet |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /balɛt/. |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #13,226 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “ballet”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around ballet (IPA /balɛt/.), anoun. Corpus frequency is #13,226 among 840 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "balé".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for ballet, with forms such as "abllet", "balelt", and "balet". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "basket", "Ball", "bale", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 ballet, spelled B-A-L-L-E-T.
Definition
- 1balé
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- abllet
- balelt
- balet
- ballett
- ballte
- bballet
- blalet
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of ballet - 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).