básico
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#3,747
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
13
similar word pairs
básico is anPortugueseadj. It means: que serve de base Pronounced /ˈba.zi.ku/. It ranks #3,747 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with bico and batido.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | básico |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | /ˈba.zi.ku/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #3,747 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 13 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for básico is 6 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈba.zi.ku/. Corpus data places it at rank #3,747 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for básico, with forms such as "bbásico", "bsáico", and "báisco". 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 13 confusable-pair relationships, "bico", "batido", "bélico", 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 básico, spelled B-Á-S-I-C-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1que serve de base
- 2essencial, principal, fundamental, original
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: bbásico,bsáico,báisco,báscio,básicco,básioc,bássico,ábsico
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for básico
Misspelling Variants of "básico"
Frequency rank: #3,747 in Portuguese
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