banco

/ˈbã.ku/

//ˈbã.ku// noun

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The verdict

“banco” has 7 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #821. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#821
frequency rank, Portuguese
840
“B” headwords
7
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - móvel para sentar, sem encosto se for individual, em madeira, cortiça, plástico, vime ou ferro; mocho; escabelo:

Corpus desk

Index PT-banco · banco · Portuguese

banco · rank #821 · 7 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-CORE #821
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 7 variants
  • BOOK-MID 840
  • PHOTO-FINISH aquilo

Nearest frequency peer: aquilo (-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 “banco”

Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho

corpus weight

What this shows “banco” está entre estes pares FrequencyWords; a profundidade de typo mede-se à parte no gráfico de distância de edição.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

banco vs bico
60% similar
banco vs bank
60% similar
banco vs beco
60% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for banco
PropertyValue
Headwordbanco
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
IPA/ˈbã.ku/
Letters5
Frequency rank#821
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequência do íman ortográfico “banco”

A frequência vai do punhado de palavras do dia a dia (esquerda) à cauda longa quase nunca usada (direita).bancocai aqui:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

A escala é logarítmica (cada marca ≈ 10× mais rara). Na mesma faixa de raridade aparecem “aquilo” (#820), “ambos” (#819), “conteúdo” (#823). Entre 840 lemas com “B”, “banco” fica em #821. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 7 spelling variants around banco (IPA /ˈbã.ku/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #821 among 840 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 10 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for banco, with forms such as "abnco", "bacno", and "bancco". 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. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "bico", "bank", "beco", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is banco, spelled B-A-N-C-O.

Definition

  1. 1
    móvel para sentar, sem encosto se for individual, em madeira, cortiça, plástico, vime ou ferro; mocho; escabelo:
  2. 2
    tábua ou pedra longas, assentes em dois ou quatro pés, com ou sem encosto, onde se podem sentar várias pessoas:
  3. 3
    nos barcos pequenos, tábua onde se sentam os ocupantes
  4. 4
    faixa de areia à superfície da água; baixio:
  5. 5
    espécie de mesa sobre que trabalham certos artífices, como os carpinteiros; bancada; banca
  6. 6
    setor hospitalar permanentemente aberto, onde são atendidos os casos urgentes
  7. 7
    instituição financeira para depósitos, aplicações, guarda de dinheiro e valores; em seus domínios são efetuadas as mais variadas modalidades de atividades financeiras:
  8. 8
    qualquer instituição que guarde, preserve e disponibilize produtos biológicos ou órgãos humanos, nomeadamente sangue, esperma, óvulos, rins, corações e outros:
  9. 9
    banco de dados
  10. 10
    conjunto de peixes em cardume que nadam na superfície das águas

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how banco appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. "No banco de cortiça, sob as arvores, miss Sarah costurava preguiçosamente"
  2. "De me ter deixado, a mim, num banco de carro eléctrico,"

This word in other languages

bench(English)banco(Español)banque(Français)Bank(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • abnco
  • bacno
  • bancco
  • bannco
  • banoc
  • bbanco
  • bnaco

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of banco - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

abnco2bacno2bancco1bannco1banoc2bbanco1bnaco2
Edit distance from "banco"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "banco"?
"banco" is spelled B-A-N-C-O. The IPA pronunciation is /ˈbã.ku/.
What does "banco" mean?
As a noun, "banco" means: móvel para sentar, sem encosto se for individual, em madeira, cortiça, plástico, vime ou ferro; mocho; escabelo:
What words are commonly confused with "banco"?
"banco" is commonly confused with "bico", "bank", "beco". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "banco"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "banco" is /ˈbã.ku/. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "banco" come from?
"banco" is a Portuguese word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "banco", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

ambos#819união#815Pedro#830serem#812

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).

aquilo7 variantsporta7 variantspagar7 variantsataque7 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list