beijo
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,464
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
19
similar word pairs
beijo is aPortuguesenoun. It means: toque com os beiços na face, mão, boca ou em qualquer objeto como ato de amor, de respeito ou de religiosidade Pronounced /ˈbej.ʒu/. It ranks #2,464 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with belo and bico.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | beijo |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈbej.ʒu/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #2,464 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 19 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for beijo is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈbej.ʒu/. Corpus data places it at rank #2,464 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for beijo, with forms such as "bbeijo", "beijjo", and "beioj". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 19 confusable-pair relationships, "belo", "bico", "beto", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Portuguese form is beijo, spelled B-E-I-J-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1toque com os beiços na face, mão, boca ou em qualquer objeto como ato de amor, de respeito ou de religiosidade
- 2no meio das espigas de milho amarelas, aquela que é vermelha
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: bbeijo,beijjo,beioj,bejio,biejo,ebijo
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for beijo
Misspelling Variants of "beijo"
Frequency rank: #2,464 in Portuguese
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Nearby Portuguese words
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