bis
The verdict
“bis” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #14,300) as a preposition. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #14,300
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 840
- “B” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - até
Corpus desk
Index PT-bis · bis · Portuguese
bis · rank #14,300 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,300
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 840
- PHOTO-FINISH Camões
Nearest frequency peer: Camões (+5 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 “bis”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- arqueologia
arqueologia
85,715 corpus weight
- associar
associar
85,711 corpus weight
- bis
bis
85,701 corpus weight
- Camões
Camões
85,696 corpus weight
- cegueira
cegueira
85,691 corpus weight
- chiclete
chiclete
85,688 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “bis” 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 | bis |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Preposition |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #14,300 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “bis”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for bis is neighbouring look-alikes ("by", "BR", …), not just typos; it is apreposition. Frequency #14,300 among 840 “B” headwords. Gloss: "até".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for bis, a sign its spelling follows regular Portuguese conventions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "by", "BR", "bo", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is bis, spelled B-I-S.
Definition
- 1até
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bis appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Das flugzeug fliegt bis München.
O avião voa até Munique.
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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Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).