bicho
The verdict
“bicho” is a regularly-used Portuguese word, ranked #7,106 in Portuguese word frequency and used as a noun.
- #7,106
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 5
- letters
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 15
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - sinônimo de animal
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 | bicho |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #7,106 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 15 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “bicho” sits in Portuguese frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for bicho is 5 letters long, classified as a noun. Corpus data places it at rank #7,106 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. Wiktionary records 11 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for bicho, with forms such as "bbicho", "bciho", and "biccho". 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 15 confusable-pair relationships, "bico", "bispo", "bingo", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Portuguese form is bicho, spelled B-I-C-H-O.
Definition
- 1sinônimo de animal
- 2animal de estimação
- 3termo de tratamento dirigido à pessoa com quem se fala
- 4em algumas regiões do Brasil (por exemplo, São Paulo), se diz de alunos recém-ingressos em universidades; neste contexto, é frequentemente grafado bixo
- 5recompensa dada ao jogador de futebol pela vitória
- 6termo referenciador de pessoa
- 7verme como os que infestam as frutas ou que decompositam corpos
- 8fome
- 9pessoa enraivecida
- 10algo que é particularmente de muito boa qualidade; estado ou qualidade de excelente
- 11sexo masculino; pênis
Synonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: bbicho,bciho,biccho,bichho,bicoh,bihco,ibcho
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of bicho - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Using “bicho”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is B-I-C-H-O - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Don't mix it up with “bico” - see the side-by-side comparison. bicho vs bico
- Browse more Portuguese words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Portuguese words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.