bani
/ˈba.ni/
The verdict
“bani” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #39,994) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #39,994
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 840
- “B” headwords
- 3
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - banhar, tomar banho, molhar
Corpus desk
Index PT-bani · bani · Portuguese
bani · rank #39,994 · 3 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #39,994
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 3 variants
- BOOK-MID 840
- PHOTO-FINISH axila
Nearest frequency peer: axila (-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 “bani”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- arado
arado
60,024 corpus weight
- atrevido
atrevido
60,011 corpus weight
- axila
axila
60,008 corpus weight
- bani
bani
60,007 corpus weight
- bardo
bardo
60,006 corpus weight
- berrar
berrar
60,001 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “bani” 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 | bani |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ˈba.ni/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #39,994 |
| Misspellings tracked | 3 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “bani”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for bani is neighbouring look-alikes ("bi", "bar", …), not just typos; it is averb pronounced /ˈba.ni/. Frequency #39,994 among 840 “B” headwords. Gloss: "banhar, tomar banho, molhar".
Our generated misspelling index lists 3 likely wrong-spelling variants for bani, with forms such as "banni", "bbani", and "bnai". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "bi", "bar", "boi", 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 easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is bani, spelled B-A-N-I.
Definition
- 1banhar, tomar banho, molhar
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- banni
- bbani
- bnai
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of bani - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "bani", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).