bit
/bit/
The verdict
“bit” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #11,815) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #11,815
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 840
- “B” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - ver bite
Corpus desk
Index PT-bit · bit · Portuguese
bit · rank #11,815 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #11,815
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 840
- PHOTO-FINISH azeite
Nearest frequency peer: azeite (-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 “bit”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- autêntico
autêntico
88,196 corpus weight
- auxiliares
auxiliares
88,195 corpus weight
- azeite
azeite
88,191 corpus weight
- bit
bit
88,186 corpus weight
- caldeira
caldeira
88,181 corpus weight
- cenoura
cenoura
88,176 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “bit” 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 | bit |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /bit/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #11,815 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “bit”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for bit is neighbouring look-alikes ("by", "BR", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced /bit/. Frequency #11,815 among 840 “B” headwords. Gloss: "ver bite".
No misspelling variants are generated for bit in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Portuguese patterns. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "by", "BR", "bo", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is bit, spelled B-I-T.
Definition
- 1ver bite
This word in other languages
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).