basta
/ˈbaʃ.tɐ/
The verdict
“basta” has 7 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #1,234. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,234
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 840
- “B” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - não mais!; chega!
Corpus desk
Index PT-basta · basta · Portuguese
basta · rank #1,234 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,234
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 840
- PHOTO-FINISH antigo
Nearest frequency peer: antigo (-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 “basta”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- tiver
tiver
98,771 corpus weight
- antigo
antigo
98,768 corpus weight
- basta
basta
98,767 corpus weight
- bola
bola
98,766 corpus weight
- casal
casal
98,765 corpus weight
- congresso
congresso
98,764 corpus weight
What this shows “basta” 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 | basta |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| IPA | /ˈbaʃ.tɐ/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #1,234 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “basta”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around basta (IPA /ˈbaʃ.tɐ/), aninterjection. Corpus frequency is #1,234 among 840 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "não mais!; chega!".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for basta, with forms such as "absta", "basat", and "bassta". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "bat", "beta", "bota", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Portuguese form is basta, spelled B-A-S-T-A.
Definition
- 1não mais!; chega!
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- absta
- basat
- bassta
- bastta
- batsa
- bbasta
- bsata
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of basta - 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
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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).