biscoito

Name: biscoito, Portuguese Word Data
Creator: Wiktionary
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

/biʃ.ˈkoj.tu/

//biʃ.ˈkoj.tu// noun

By PlainSpell · According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA) · analyzed September 3, 2026

The verdict

“biscoito” has 11 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #10,140. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#10,140
frequency rank, Portuguese: 840
“B” headwords: 11
tracked misspellings: 1
confusable pair

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - alimento, geralmente doce, feito de farinha e assado até se tornar crocante

Corpus desk

Index PT-biscoito · biscoito · Portuguese

biscoito · rank #10,140 · 11 variants · 1 confusable

FREQ-MID #10,140
LEN-LONG 8 letters
VOW-4 4 vowels
CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
VAR-MID 11 variants
BOOK-MID 840
PHOTO-FINISH bobagem

Nearest frequency peer: bobagem (+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.

atrasar

89,864
audio

89,863
biscoito

89,861
bobagem

89,860
cadela

89,859
cebola

89,857

What this shows “biscoito” 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).

biscoito vs biscuit

75% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for biscoito
Property	Value
Headword	biscoito
Language	Portuguese
Part of speech	Noun
IPA	/biʃ.ˈkoj.tu/
Letters	8
Frequency rank	#10,140
Misspellings tracked	11
Confusable pairs	1
Source	Wiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequência do íman ortográfico “biscoito”

Esta escala corre do núcleo do português quotidiano (esquerda) até o rastro de formas raras (direita).biscoitocai aqui:

#10,140

#1#100#1K#10K#100K

← used constantlyrarely used →

Os ticks avançam em logaritmo; cada um é da ordem de dez vezes mais raro. Na mesma faixa de raridade aparecem “bobagem” (#10,141), “audio” (#10,138), “cadela” (#10,142). Entre 840 lemas com “B”, “biscoito” fica em #10,140. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 11 spelling variants around biscoito (IPA /biʃ.ˈkoj.tu/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #10,140 among 840 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for biscoito, with forms such as "bbiscoito", "bicsoito", and "bisccoito". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "biscuit", 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 its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is biscoito, spelled B-I-S-C-O-I-T-O.

Definition

1
alimento, geralmente doce, feito de farinha e assado até se tornar crocante
2
alimento feito de polvilho assado até se tornar crocante
3
pequeno bolo seco e duro geralmente de formato cilíndrico ou cúbico
4
bolacha que se come a bordo dos navios e é cozida duas vezes
5
cerâmica queimada que não foi esmaltada

Synonyms

bolacha

This word in other languages

biscuit(English)galleta(Español)biscuit(Français)Biskuit(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

bbiscoito
bicsoito
bisccoito
biscioto
biscoiot
biscoitto
biscotio
bisocito
bisscoito
bsicoito
ibscoito

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of biscoito - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

Edit distance from "biscoito"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "biscoito"?

"biscoito" is spelled B-I-S-C-O-I-T-O. The IPA pronunciation is /biʃ.ˈkoj.tu/.

What does "biscoito" mean?

As a noun, "biscoito" means: alimento, geralmente doce, feito de farinha e assado até se tornar crocante

What words are commonly confused with "biscoito"?

"biscoito" is commonly confused with "biscuit". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.

How do you pronounce "biscoito"?

The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "biscoito" is /biʃ.ˈkoj.tu/. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.

What language does "biscoito" come from?

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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "biscoito", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).

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