Bass
/bas/ ouvir^(fonte ?)
The verdict
“Bass” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #16,231) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #16,231
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 840
- “B” headwords
- 3
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - a voz mais grave dum homem; baixo
Corpus desk
Index PT-bass · Bass · Portuguese
Bass · rank #16,231 · 3 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #16,231
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 3 variants
- BOOK-MID 840
- PHOTO-FINISH bibi
Nearest frequency peer: bibi (+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 “Bass”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- bacalhau
bacalhau
83,774 corpus weight
- baralho
baralho
83,772 corpus weight
- Bass
Bass
83,770 corpus weight
- bibi
bibi
83,769 corpus weight
- blanc
blanc
83,768 corpus weight
- Botswana
Botswana
83,765 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “Bass” 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 | Bass |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /bas/ ouvir^(fonte ?) |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #16,231 |
| Misspellings tracked | 3 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “Bass”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for Bass is neighbouring look-alikes ("Bus", "baú", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced /bas/ ouvir^(fonte ?). Frequency #16,231 among 840 “B” headwords. 3 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Our generated misspelling index lists 3 likely wrong-spelling variants for Bass, with forms such as "abss", "bbass", and "bsas". 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, "Bus", "baú", "bis", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Portuguese form is Bass, spelled B-A-S-S.
Definition
- 1a voz mais grave dum homem; baixo
- 2um homem que canta com voz de baixo; baixo
- 3baixo (instrumento musical)
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- abss
- bbass
- bsas
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Bass - 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.
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 "Bass", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).