bat
/bæt/
The verdict
“bat” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #21,374) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #21,374
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 840
- “B” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - morcego
Corpus desk
Index PT-bat · bat · Portuguese
bat · rank #21,374 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #21,374
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 840
- PHOTO-FINISH basílica
Nearest frequency peer: basílica (-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 “bat”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- arrendamento
arrendamento
78,636 corpus weight
- aturar
aturar
78,631 corpus weight
- basílica
basílica
78,628 corpus weight
- bat
bat
78,627 corpus weight
- bibliografia
bibliografia
78,622 corpus weight
- calamidade
calamidade
78,617 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “bat” 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 | bat |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /bæt/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #21,374 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “bat”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for bat is neighbouring look-alikes ("by", "BR", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced /bæt/. Frequency #21,374 among 840 “B” headwords. 4 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for bat, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "by", "BR", "bi", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Portuguese form is bat, spelled B-A-T.
Definition
- 1morcego
- 2mulher idosa
- 3prostituta; assim denominada por se mover como um morcego na noite
- 4taco, bastão
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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Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).