bombo
/ˈbõ.bu/
The verdict
“bombo” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #54,268 among 840 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,268
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 840
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - tambor pequeno
Corpus desk
Index PT-bombo · bombo · Portuguese
bombo · rank #54,268 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,268
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 840
- PHOTO-FINISH bride
Nearest frequency peer: bride (+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.
Ranks da cauda longa perto de “bombo”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- bimestral
bimestral
45,738 corpus weight
- bombo
bombo
45,733 corpus weight
- bride
bride
45,729 corpus weight
- bucetuda
bucetuda
45,725 corpus weight
- carranca
carranca
45,716 corpus weight
- cartolina
cartolina
45,715 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “bombo” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bombo |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈbõ.bu/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #54,268 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “bombo” em português
Rare enough to double-check
bombo is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #54,268 among 840 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈbõ.bu/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "tambor pequeno".
bombo has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is bombo, spelled B-O-M-B-O.
Definition
- 1tambor pequeno
Synonyms
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).