ban
The verdict
“ban” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #13,668) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #13,668
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 840
- “B” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - proibição
Corpus desk
Index PT-ban · ban · Portuguese
ban · rank #13,668 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #13,668
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 840
- PHOTO-FINISH before
Nearest frequency peer: before (+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.
Vizinhos de frequência do confusável “ban”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- aperfeiçoam…
aperfeiçoamento
86,341 corpus weight
- ban
ban
86,333 corpus weight
- before
before
86,332 corpus weight
- bel
bel
86,331 corpus weight
- bia
bia
86,328 corpus weight
- bote
bote
86,326 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “ban” 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 | ban |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #13,668 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “ban”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for ban is neighbouring look-alikes ("by", "BR", …), not just typos; it is anoun. Frequency #13,668 among 840 “B” headwords. Gloss: "proibição".
No generated misspelling entries exist for ban in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. 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.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Portuguese form is ban, spelled B-A-N.
Definition
- 1proibição
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how ban appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
smoking ban: proibição de fumar
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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