bon
The verdict
“bon” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #10,479) as an adjective. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #10,479
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 840
- “B” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - bom
Corpus desk
Index PT-bon · bon · Portuguese
bon · rank #10,479 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #10,479
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 840
- PHOTO-FINISH bosque
Nearest frequency peer: bosque (+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 “bon”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- arrependime…
arrependimento
89,527 corpus weight
- arrogância
arrogância
89,526 corpus weight
- bon
bon
89,522 corpus weight
- bosque
bosque
89,521 corpus weight
- break
break
89,520 corpus weight
- caravana
caravana
89,517 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “bon” 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 | bon |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #10,479 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “bon”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for bon is neighbouring look-alikes ("by", "BR", …), not just typos; it is anadjective. Frequency #10,479 among 840 “B” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
bon doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "by", "BR", "boy", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct Portuguese form is bon, spelled B-O-N.
Definition
- 1bom
- 2correto
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how bon appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Assurez-vous d'utiliser le bon répertoire d'installation.
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).