boat
/bəʊt/, SAMPA: /b@Ut/
The verdict
“boat” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #22,232) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #22,232
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 840
- “B” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - bote, barco, canoa, batel, barco de pesca
Corpus desk
Index PT-boat · boat · Portuguese
boat · rank #22,232 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #22,232
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-MID 840
- PHOTO-FINISH because
Nearest frequency peer: because (-2 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 “boat”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- atrativo
atrativo
77,780 corpus weight
- atropelar
atropelar
77,778 corpus weight
- because
because
77,771 corpus weight
- boat
boat
77,769 corpus weight
- cancela
cancela
77,759 corpus weight
- cautelar
cautelar
77,755 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “boat” 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 | boat |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /bəʊt/, SAMPA: /b@Ut/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #22,232 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “boat”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for boat is neighbouring look-alikes ("bom", "boy", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced /bəʊt/, SAMPA: /b@Ut/. Frequency #22,232 among 840 “B” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for boat, with forms such as "baot", "bboat", and "boatt". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "bom", "boy", "boi", 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 best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Portuguese form is boat, spelled B-O-A-T.
Definition
- 1bote, barco, canoa, batel, barco de pesca
- 2um full house no póquer
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- baot
- bboat
- boatt
- obat
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of boat - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 "boat", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).