batuque
/bɐ.ˈtu.kɨ/
The verdict
“batuque” has 9 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #43,782. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #43,782
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 840
- “B” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - batucada; reunião festiva para dançar ao som de instrumentos de percussão
Corpus desk
Index PT-batuque · batuque · Portuguese
batuque · rank #43,782 · 9 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #43,782
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 840
- PHOTO-FINISH barramento
Nearest frequency peer: barramento (-2 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 “batuque”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- astronômico
astronômico
56,229 corpus weight
- Atacama
Atacama
56,228 corpus weight
- aterrissar
aterrissar
56,226 corpus weight
- barramento
barramento
56,221 corpus weight
- batuque
batuque
56,219 corpus weight
- bibliográfi…
bibliográfico
56,215 corpus weight
What this shows “batuque” 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 | batuque |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /bɐ.ˈtu.kɨ/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #43,782 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “batuque”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around batuque (IPA /bɐ.ˈtu.kɨ/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #43,782 among 840 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for batuque, with forms such as "abtuque", "batquue", and "battuque". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "buquê", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Portuguese form is batuque, spelled B-A-T-U-Q-U-E.
Definition
- 1batucada; reunião festiva para dançar ao som de instrumentos de percussão
- 2religião afro-brasileira de culto aos orixás encontrada principalmente no estado do Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil, de onde se estendeu para os países vizinhos tais como Uruguai e Argentina
- 3ruído repetido de golpes
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how batuque appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Batuque na cozinha sinhá não quer/Por causa do batuque eu queimei meu pé
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- abtuque
- batquue
- battuque
- batuqeu
- batuqque
- batuuqe
- bautque
- bbatuque
- btauque
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of batuque - 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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).