boneca
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#7,502
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
9
similar word pairs
boneca is aPortuguesenoun. It means: figura de qualquer material que imita senhora ou menina utilizada como adorno ou brinquedo Pronounced /bu.ˈnɛ.kɐ/. It ranks #7,502 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with boneco and boteco.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | boneca |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /bu.ˈnɛ.kɐ/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #7,502 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for boneca is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /bu.ˈnɛ.kɐ/. Corpus data places it at rank #7,502 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for boneca, with forms such as "bboneca", "bnoeca", and "boenca". 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 9 confusable-pair relationships, "boneco", "boteco", "bronca", 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 boneca, spelled B-O-N-E-C-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1figura de qualquer material que imita senhora ou menina utilizada como adorno ou brinquedo
- 2pequeno chumaço de pano para aplicação de verniz
- 3chucha de pano
- 4tampão de madeira para resguardar o cano das espingardas
- 5mulher muito enfeitada, pequenina e elegante
- 6espiga de milho ainda em formação
- 7castanha sem polpa, oca
- 8homossexual masculino
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: bboneca,bnoeca,boenca,boncea,boneac,bonecca,bonneca,obneca
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "boneca"
Frequency rank: #7,502 in Portuguese
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