barco
/ˈbaɾ.ku/
The verdict
“barco” has 7 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #3,745. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #3,745
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 840
- “B” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - veículo de transporte aquático
Corpus desk
Index PT-barco · barco · Portuguese
barco · rank #3,745 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #3,745
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 840
- PHOTO-FINISH atlético
Nearest frequency peer: atlético (-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 “barco”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- americanas
americanas
96,260 corpus weight
- assume
assume
96,258 corpus weight
- atlético
atlético
96,257 corpus weight
- barco
barco
96,256 corpus weight
- básico
básico
96,254 corpus weight
- circuito
circuito
96,253 corpus weight
What this shows “barco” 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 | barco |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈbaɾ.ku/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #3,745 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “barco”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around barco (IPA /ˈbaɾ.ku/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #3,745 among 840 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "veículo de transporte aquático".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for barco, with forms such as "abrco", "bacro", and "barcco". 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", "beco", "Bart", 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 barco, spelled B-A-R-C-O.
Definition
- 1veículo de transporte aquático
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- abrco
- bacro
- barcco
- baroc
- barrco
- bbarco
- braco
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of barco - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).