boneco
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#9,299
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
6
similar word pairs
boneco is aPortuguesenoun. It means: figura humana constituída de pano, madeira, plástico, porcelana entre outros materiais, é dedicado a crianças Pronounced /bu.ˈnɛ.ku/. It ranks #9,299 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with bonito and boteco.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | boneco |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /bu.ˈnɛ.ku/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #9,299 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for boneco is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /bu.ˈnɛ.ku/. Corpus data places it at rank #9,299 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 5 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 boneco, with forms such as "bboneco", "bnoeco", and "boenco". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "bonito", "boteco", "beco", 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 boneco, spelled B-O-N-E-C-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1figura humana constituída de pano, madeira, plástico, porcelana entre outros materiais, é dedicado a crianças
- 2desenho
- 3nome dado por crianças a desenhos e estampas
- 4pessoa inútil
- 5personagem virtual controlado por um jogador real ou por um algoritmo programado para simular um
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: bboneco,bnoeco,boenco,bonceo,bonecco,boneoc,bonneco,obneco
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for boneco
Misspelling Variants of "boneco"
Frequency rank: #9,299 in Portuguese
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