belo
/ˈbɛ.lu/
The verdict
“belo” has 5 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #1,110. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,110
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 840
- “B” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - que é possuidor de beleza
Corpus desk
Index PT-belo · belo · Portuguese
belo · rank #1,110 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,110
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-MID 840
- PHOTO-FINISH anterior
Nearest frequency peer: anterior (-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.
Pares de rank junto ao íman ortográfico “belo”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- Americana
Americana
98,895 corpus weight
- amiga
amiga
98,893 corpus weight
- anterior
anterior
98,892 corpus weight
- belo
belo
98,891 corpus weight
- cinema
cinema
98,890 corpus weight
- classe
classe
98,889 corpus weight
What this shows “belo” está entre estes pares FrequencyWords; a profundidade de typo mede-se à parte no gráfico de distância de edição.
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 | belo |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ˈbɛ.lu/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #1,110 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “belo”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around belo (IPA /ˈbɛ.lu/), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #1,110 among 840 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for belo, with forms such as "bbelo", "bello", and "beol". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "bo", "bem", "blu", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Portuguese form is belo, spelled B-E-L-O.
Definition
- 1que é possuidor de beleza
- 2agradável aos sentidos
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbelo
- bello
- beol
- bleo
- eblo
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of belo - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 "belo", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).