bin
/bɪn/
The verdict
“bin” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #8,722) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #8,722
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 840
- “B” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - primeira pessoa do singular do presente do indicativo do verbo sein:
Corpus desk
Index PT-bin · bin · Portuguese
bin · rank #8,722 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #8,722
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 840
- PHOTO-FINISH blusa
Nearest frequency peer: blusa (+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.
Vizinhos de frequência do confusável “bin”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- banner
banner
91,282 corpus weight
- bin
bin
91,279 corpus weight
- blusa
blusa
91,278 corpus weight
- borda
borda
91,277 corpus weight
- bota
bota
91,276 corpus weight
- cachoeira
cachoeira
91,275 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “bin” face aos lemas portugueses mais próximos por rank, não um reprint da secretária de confusáveis.
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 | bin |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /bɪn/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #8,722 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “bin”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for bin is neighbouring look-alikes ("by", "BR", …), not just typos; it is averb pronounced /bɪn/. Frequency #8,722 among 840 “B” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
No misspelling variants are generated for bin in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "by", "BR", "bo", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Portuguese form is bin, spelled B-I-N.
Definition
- 1primeira pessoa do singular do presente do indicativo do verbo sein:
- 2primeira pessoa do singular do presente do indicativo do verbo sein:
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how bin appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ich bin verliebt.
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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