banco
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#821
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
banco is aPortuguesenoun. It means: móvel para sentar, sem encosto se for individual, em madeira, cortiça, plástico, vime ou ferro; mocho; escabelo: Pronounced /ˈbã.ku/. It ranks #821 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with bico and bank.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | banco |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈbã.ku/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #821 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for banco is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈbã.ku/. Corpus data places it at rank #821 in overall Portuguese word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 10 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for banco, with forms such as "abnco", "bacno", and "bancco". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "bico", "bank", "beco", 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 banco, spelled B-A-N-C-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1móvel para sentar, sem encosto se for individual, em madeira, cortiça, plástico, vime ou ferro; mocho; escabelo:
- 2tábua ou pedra longas, assentes em dois ou quatro pés, com ou sem encosto, onde se podem sentar várias pessoas:
- 3nos barcos pequenos, tábua onde se sentam os ocupantes
- 4faixa de areia à superfície da água; baixio:
- 5espécie de mesa sobre que trabalham certos artífices, como os carpinteiros; bancada; banca
- 6setor hospitalar permanentemente aberto, onde são atendidos os casos urgentes
- 7instituição financeira para depósitos, aplicações, guarda de dinheiro e valores; em seus domínios são efetuadas as mais variadas modalidades de atividades financeiras:
- 8qualquer instituição que guarde, preserve e disponibilize produtos biológicos ou órgãos humanos, nomeadamente sangue, esperma, óvulos, rins, corações e outros:
- 9banco de dados
- 10conjunto de peixes em cardume que nadam na superfície das águas
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: abnco,bacno,bancco,bannco,banoc,bbanco,bnaco
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for banco
Misspelling Variants of "banco"
Frequency rank: #821 in Portuguese
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Nearby Portuguese words
Other entries that begin with the letter B in our Portuguese index: