bo
/bo/
The verdict
“bo” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #7,736) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #7,736
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 840
- “B” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - bastão longo de madeira ou bambu, utilizado em artes marciais
Corpus desk
Index PT-bo · bo · Portuguese
bo · rank #7,736 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,736
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 840
- PHOTO-FINISH boxe
Nearest frequency peer: boxe (+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 “bo”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- apocalipse
apocalipse
92,273 corpus weight
- bo
bo
92,265 corpus weight
- boxe
boxe
92,264 corpus weight
- Caroline
Caroline
92,262 corpus weight
- cat
cat
92,261 corpus weight
- caverna
caverna
92,260 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “bo” 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 | bo |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /bo/ |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #7,736 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “bo”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for bo is neighbouring look-alikes ("by", "BR", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced /bo/. Frequency #7,736 among 840 “B” headwords. Gloss: "bastão longo de madeira ou bambu, utilizado em artes marciais".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for bo, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "by", "BR", "bom", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Portuguese form is bo, spelled B-O.
Definition
- 1bastão longo de madeira ou bambu, utilizado em artes marciais
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.