book

noun

Letters

4 characters

Frequency Rank

#5,603

in Portuguese word usage

Misspellings

4

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

book is aPortuguesenoun. It means: livro It ranks #5,603 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with boy and box.

Key facts for book
PropertyValue
Headwordbook
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
Letters4
Frequency rank#5,603
Misspellings tracked4
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of book in Portuguese word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for book is 4 letters long, classified as anoun. Corpus data places it at rank #5,603 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "livro".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 4 documented wrong-spelling variants for book, with forms such as "bbook", "boko", and "bookk". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "boy", "box", "bot", 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 book, spelled B-O-O-K, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    livro

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: bbook,boko,bookk,obok

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for book

Misspelling Variants of "book"

bbook5boko4bookk5obok4
Misspelling Variants of "book"

Frequency rank: #5,603 in Portuguese

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "book"?
"book" is spelled B-O-O-K.
What does "book" mean?
As a noun, "book" means: livro
What words are commonly confused with "book"?
"book" is commonly confused with "boy", "box", "bot". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "book" come from?
"book" is a Portuguese word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
Is PlainSpell free to use?
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Nearby Portuguese words

Other entries that begin with the letter B in our Portuguese index:

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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.