Bernard
/bɛʁ.naʁ/
The verdict
“Bernard” has 11 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #11,591. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #11,591
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 840
- “B” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Bernardo
Corpus desk
Index PT-bernard · Bernard · Portuguese
Bernard · rank #11,591 · 11 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #11,591
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 840
- PHOTO-FINISH atraído
Nearest frequency peer: atraído (-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 “Bernard”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- assassinar
assassinar
88,415 corpus weight
- atraído
atraído
88,412 corpus weight
- Bernard
Bernard
88,410 corpus weight
- cadáver
cadáver
88,407 corpus weight
- camisinha
camisinha
88,406 corpus weight
- canhão
canhão
88,405 corpus weight
What this shows “Bernard” 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 | Bernard |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /bɛʁ.naʁ/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #11,591 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “Bernard”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around Bernard (IPA /bɛʁ.naʁ/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #11,591 among 840 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Bernardo".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for Bernard, with forms such as "bbernard", "benrard", and "beranrd". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "berrar", "Bernardo", "beard", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 Bernard, spelled B-E-R-N-A-R-D.
Definition
- 1Bernardo
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbernard
- benrard
- beranrd
- bernadr
- bernardd
- bernarrd
- bernnard
- bernrad
- berrnard
- brenard
- ebrnard
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Bernard - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Bernard", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).