beta
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#6,033
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
beta is aPortuguesenoun. It means: o nome da segunda letra do alfabeto grego, de símbolo β, antecedida por alfa e sucedida por gama (no grego moderno é chamada vita e representa o som de "v") Pronounced /ˈbɛ.tɐ/. It ranks #6,033 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with boa and but.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | beta |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈbɛ.tɐ/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #6,033 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for beta is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈbɛ.tɐ/. Corpus data places it at rank #6,033 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for beta, with forms such as "bbeta", "beat", and "betta". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "boa", "but", "bit", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Portuguese form is beta, spelled B-E-T-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1o nome da segunda letra do alfabeto grego, de símbolo β, antecedida por alfa e sucedida por gama (no grego moderno é chamada vita e representa o som de "v")
- 2tipo de partícula de emissões radioativas
- 3gênero de vegetais suculentos da família das quenopodiáceas (Ex.: beterraba)
- 4versão preliminar de um programa de computador liberada para testes
- 5nome de uma casta social com habilidade científica, no romance "Admirável Mundo Novo", de Aldous Huxley
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: bbeta,beat,betta,btea,ebta
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for beta
Misspelling Variants of "beta"
Frequency rank: #6,033 in Portuguese
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Nearby Portuguese words
Other entries that begin with the letter B in our Portuguese index: