blau
/blaʊ̯/ ouvir^(fonte ?)
The verdict
“blau” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #39,501) as an adjective. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #39,501
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 840
- “B” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - azul
Corpus desk
Index PT-blau · blau · Portuguese
blau · rank #39,501 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #39,501
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-MID 840
- PHOTO-FINISH benevolência
Nearest frequency peer: benevolência (-7 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 “blau”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- bait
bait
60,514 corpus weight
- bancarrota
bancarrota
60,513 corpus weight
- benevolência
benevolência
60,507 corpus weight
- blau
blau
60,500 corpus weight
- bulimia
bulimia
60,491 corpus weight
- cadente
cadente
60,489 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “blau” 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 | blau |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /blaʊ̯/ ouvir^(fonte ?) |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #39,501 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “blau”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for blau is neighbouring look-alikes ("boa", "blu", …), not just typos; it is anadjective pronounced /blaʊ̯/ ouvir^(fonte ?). Frequency #39,501 among 840 “B” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for blau, with forms such as "balu", "bblau", and "bllau". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "boa", "blu", "blog", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is blau, spelled B-L-A-U.
Definition
- 1azul
- 2bêbado
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- balu
- bblau
- bllau
- lbau
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of blau - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "blau", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).