bel
The verdict
“bel” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #13,670) as an adjective. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #13,670
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 840
- “B” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - bela ou belo apenas em próclise
Corpus desk
Index PT-bel · bel · Portuguese
bel · rank #13,670 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #13,670
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 840
- PHOTO-FINISH before
Nearest frequency peer: before (-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 “bel”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- ban
ban
86,333 corpus weight
- before
before
86,332 corpus weight
- bel
bel
86,331 corpus weight
- bia
bia
86,328 corpus weight
- bote
bote
86,326 corpus weight
- Bus
Bus
86,325 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “bel” 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 | bel |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #13,670 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “bel”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for bel is neighbouring look-alikes ("by", "BR", …), not just typos; it is anadjective. Frequency #13,670 among 840 “B” headwords. Gloss: "bela ou belo apenas em próclise".
bel has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. 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 its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct Portuguese form is bel, spelled B-E-L.
Definition
- 1bela ou belo apenas em próclise
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how bel appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
"en un mui bel chão o leixou"
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).