beau
/bo/
The verdict
“beau” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #29,243) as an adjective. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #29,243
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 840
- “B” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - bonito
Corpus desk
Index PT-beau · beau · Portuguese
beau · rank #29,243 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #29,243
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-MID 840
- PHOTO-FINISH barricada
Nearest frequency peer: barricada (-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 “beau”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- autópsia
autópsia
70,762 corpus weight
- avermelhado
avermelhado
70,761 corpus weight
- barricada
barricada
70,759 corpus weight
- beau
beau
70,758 corpus weight
- bicampeão
bicampeão
70,757 corpus weight
- bitch
bitch
70,755 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “beau” 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 | beau |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /bo/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #29,243 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “beau”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for beau is neighbouring look-alikes ("bem", "boa", …), not just typos; it is anadjective pronounced /bo/. Frequency #29,243 among 840 “B” headwords. Gloss: "bonito".
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for beau, with forms such as "baeu", "bbeau", and "beua". 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, "bem", "boa", "bel", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Portuguese form is beau, spelled B-E-A-U.
Definition
- 1bonito
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- baeu
- bbeau
- beua
- ebau
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of beau - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 "beau", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).