bola
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,235
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
bola is aPortuguesenoun. It means: sólido esférico qualquer (ver esfera) It ranks #1,235 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with bom and boy.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bola |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #1,235 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for bola is 4 letters long, classified as anoun. Corpus data places it at rank #1,235 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for bola, with forms such as "bbola", "bloa", and "boal". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "bom", "boy", "box", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Portuguese form is bola, spelled B-O-L-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1sólido esférico qualquer (ver esfera)
- 2objeto utilizado em diversos esportes (futebol, handebol, vôlei, basquete e golfe, entre outros)
- 3testículo
- 4atenção, importância
- 5ímpeto de achar-se, expressar-se ou agir com superioridade em relação a outrem
- 6atenção com interesse sentimental-amoroso-sexual
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: bbola,bloa,boal,bolla,obla
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for bola
Misspelling Variants of "bola"
Frequency rank: #1,235 in Portuguese
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Nearby Portuguese words
Other entries that begin with the letter B in our Portuguese index: