boi
The verdict
“boi” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #6,270) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #6,270
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 840
- “B” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - animal macho adulto castrado das espécies Bos taurus e Bos indicus
Corpus desk
Index PT-boi · boi · Portuguese
boi · rank #6,270 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #6,270
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 840
- PHOTO-FINISH bocado
Nearest frequency peer: bocado (-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 “boi”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- autorizado
autorizado
93,735 corpus weight
- bocado
bocado
93,732 corpus weight
- boi
boi
93,731 corpus weight
- bêbado
bêbado
93,730 corpus weight
- capturar
capturar
93,729 corpus weight
- cartaz
cartaz
93,727 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “boi” 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 | boi |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #6,270 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “boi”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for boi is neighbouring look-alikes ("by", "BR", …), not just typos; it is anoun. Frequency #6,270 among 840 “B” headwords. 4 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
boi doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. 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 explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Portuguese form is boi, spelled B-O-I.
Definition
- 1animal macho adulto castrado das espécies Bos taurus e Bos indicus
- 2tipo de cachimbo utilizado para fumar maconha
- 3riqueza, grande valor
- 4facilidade, uma oportunidade que permite obter, ter, conseguir com pouco ou bem menos esforço, ou mesmo sem nenhum esforço algo que do contrário não se conseguiria de forma tão fácil
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how boi appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Eu dou um boi para não entrar em uma briga, mas dou uma boiada para não sair.
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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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape
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