bombear
/bõ.ˈbjaɾ/
The verdict
“bombear” has 10 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #32,073. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #32,073
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 840
- “B” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - usar uma bomba para mover líquido ou gás de um lugar para outro
Corpus desk
Index PT-bombear · bombear · Portuguese
bombear · rank #32,073 · 10 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #32,073
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 840
- PHOTO-FINISH brick
Nearest frequency peer: brick (+4 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.
Pares de rank junto ao íman ortográfico “bombear”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- bagaço
bagaço
67,939 corpus weight
- bailarino
bailarino
67,938 corpus weight
- bombear
bombear
67,928 corpus weight
- brick
brick
67,924 corpus weight
- bucha
bucha
67,921 corpus weight
- cabeleira
cabeleira
67,917 corpus weight
What this shows “bombear” está entre estes pares FrequencyWords; a profundidade de typo mede-se à parte no gráfico de distância de edição.
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 | bombear |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /bõ.ˈbjaɾ/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #32,073 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “bombear”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around bombear (IPA /bõ.ˈbjaɾ/), averb. Corpus frequency is #32,073 among 840 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "usar uma bomba para mover líquido ou gás de um lugar para outro".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for bombear, with forms such as "bbombear", "bmobear", and "bobmear". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "bomba", "bombas", "bombar", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 bombear, spelled B-O-M-B-E-A-R.
Definition
- 1usar uma bomba para mover líquido ou gás de um lugar para outro
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how bombear appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sem conseguir bombear água da Jaguari-Jacareí, que tem 65% do volume morto que será utilizado, a Sabesp foi obrigada a aumentar a retirada da Represa Cachoeira para Atibainha
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbombear
- bmobear
- bobmear
- bombaer
- bombbear
- bombearr
- bombera
- bomebar
- bommbear
- obmbear
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of bombear - 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 "bombear", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).