below
/bɪˈloʊ/
The verdict
“below” has 7 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #35,455. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #35,455
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 840
- “B” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 17
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - debaixo, abaixo, por baixo
Corpus desk
Index PT-below · below · Portuguese
below · rank #35,455 · 7 variants · 17 confusables
- FREQ-MID #35,455
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 17 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 840
- PHOTO-FINISH bas
Nearest frequency peer: bas (-2 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 “below”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- autoestrada
autoestrada
64,558 corpus weight
- bas
bas
64,548 corpus weight
- below
below
64,546 corpus weight
- bless
bless
64,541 corpus weight
- brigue
brigue
64,535 corpus weight
- bronquite
bronquite
64,534 corpus weight
What this shows “below” 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 | below |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | /bɪˈloʊ/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #35,455 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 17 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “below”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around below (IPA /bɪˈloʊ/), anadverb. Corpus frequency is #35,455 among 840 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for below, with forms such as "bbelow", "bellow", and "beloww". 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 17 confusable-pair relationships, "bow", "blog", "bolo", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Portuguese form is below, spelled B-E-L-O-W.
Definition
- 1debaixo, abaixo, por baixo
- 2inferior
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbelow
- bellow
- beloww
- belwo
- beolw
- bleow
- eblow
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of below - 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 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).