bela
/ˈbɛ.la/.
The verdict
“bela” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #1,837) as an adjective. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #1,837
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 840
- “B” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - bonito(a), lindo(a)
Corpus desk
Index PT-bela · bela · Portuguese
bela · rank #1,837 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,837
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-MID 840
- PHOTO-FINISH cadeia
Nearest frequency peer: cadeia (+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 “bela”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- agente
agente
98,167 corpus weight
- almoço
almoço
98,166 corpus weight
- bela
bela
98,164 corpus weight
- cadeia
cadeia
98,163 corpus weight
- calor
calor
98,162 corpus weight
- capa
capa
98,161 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “bela” 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 | bela |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ˈbɛ.la/. |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #1,837 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “bela”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for bela is neighbouring look-alikes ("bem", "boa", …), not just typos; it is anadjective pronounced /ˈbɛ.la/.. Frequency #1,837 among 840 “B” headwords. Gloss: "bonito(a), lindo(a)".
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for bela, with forms such as "bbela", "beal", and "blea". 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", "bia", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is bela, spelled B-E-L-A.
Definition
- 1bonito(a), lindo(a)
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how bela appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La kato estas bela.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbela
- beal
- blea
- ebla
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of bela - 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 "bela", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).