baú
/ba.ˈu/
The verdict
“baú” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #13,895) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #13,895
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 840
- “B” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - caixa retangular com tampa convexa e geralmente revestida de couro cru
Corpus desk
Index PT-bau · baú · Portuguese
baú · rank #13,895 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #13,895
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 840
- PHOTO-FINISH bode
Nearest frequency peer: bode (+3 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 “baú”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- aura
aura
86,114 corpus weight
- baba
baba
86,113 corpus weight
- Bahamas
Bahamas
86,111 corpus weight
- baú
baú
86,106 corpus weight
- bode
bode
86,103 corpus weight
- centena
centena
86,100 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “baú” 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 | baú |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ba.ˈu/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #13,895 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “baú”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for baú is neighbouring look-alikes ("by", "BR", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced /ba.ˈu/. Frequency #13,895 among 840 “B” headwords. 5 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
baú doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Portuguese patterns. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "by", "BR", "bi", 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, 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 baú, spelled B-A-Ú.
Definition
- 1caixa retangular com tampa convexa e geralmente revestida de couro cru
- 2mala
- 3indivíduo endinheirado
- 4crustáceo decápode (Hepatus princeps) da família dos calapídeos, encontrado na costa brasileira, de carapaça oval, pinças achatadas e coloração cinzenta com pequenas manchas avermelhadas
- 5ônibus (veículo automotor de carroceria fechada dotado de bancos para o transporte de passageiros)
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how baú appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Aquela viúva é um tremendo baú.
Synonyms
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 "baú", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).