bell
/bɛl/
The verdict
“bell” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #9,296) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #9,296
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 840
- “B” headwords
- 3
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - imperativo singular do verbo bellen
Corpus desk
Index PT-bell · bell · Portuguese
bell · rank #9,296 · 3 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,296
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 3 variants
- BOOK-MID 840
- PHOTO-FINISH banheira
Nearest frequency peer: banheira (-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 “bell”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- auditório
auditório
90,710 corpus weight
- banheira
banheira
90,706 corpus weight
- bell
bell
90,705 corpus weight
- bolha
bolha
90,703 corpus weight
- boneco
boneco
90,702 corpus weight
- burocracia
burocracia
90,699 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “bell” 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 | bell |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /bɛl/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #9,296 |
| Misspellings tracked | 3 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “bell”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for bell is neighbouring look-alikes ("bem", "blu", …), not just typos; it is averb pronounced /bɛl/. Frequency #9,296 among 840 “B” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Our generated misspelling index lists 3 likely wrong-spelling variants for bell, with forms such as "bbell", "blel", and "ebll". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "bem", "blu", "bol", 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 pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct Portuguese form is bell, spelled B-E-L-L.
Definition
- 1imperativo singular do verbo bellen
- 2primeira pessoa do singular do presente do verbo bellen
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbell
- blel
- ebll
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of bell - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).