boco
/boˈħo/, [bɔˈħɔ]
The verdict
“boco” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #97,467 among 2,073 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,467
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 2,073
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - madeira; lenha
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | boco |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /boˈħo/, [bɔˈħɔ] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #97,467 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “boco” sits in Portuguese frequency
Rare enough to double-check
boco is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #97,467 among 2,073 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /boˈħo/, [bɔˈħɔ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "madeira; lenha".
Zero misspellings are on record for boco in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 boco, spelled B-O-C-O.
Definition
- 1madeira; lenha
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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Using “boco”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is B-O-C-O - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.