bolo
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,560
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
bolo is aPortuguesenoun. It means: massa de farinha e outros ingredientes, geralmente doce, cozida no forno ou frita Pronounced /ˈbo.lu/. It ranks #2,560 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with bom and boy.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bolo |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈbo.lu/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #2,560 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for bolo is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈbo.lu/. Corpus data places it at rank #2,560 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 9 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 bolo, with forms such as "bbolo", "bloo", and "bollo". 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 bolo, spelled B-O-L-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1massa de farinha e outros ingredientes, geralmente doce, cozida no forno ou frita
- 2bolo¹ doce
- 3determinada quantidade de um objeto ou de uma substância
- 4palmatoada
- 5quantia formada pelas apostas e multas dos parceiros, ao jogo
- 6quantia com que os paroquianos contribuem para a sustentação do seu pároco
- 7confusão, desordem
- 8bolo alimentar (massa de alimento mastigado, pronto para ser ingerido)
- 9hematoma na cabeça
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: bbolo,bloo,bollo,bool,oblo
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for bolo
Misspelling Variants of "bolo"
Frequency rank: #2,560 in Portuguese
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Nearby Portuguese words
Other entries that begin with the letter B in our Portuguese index: