book
The verdict
“book” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #5,603) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #5,603
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 840
- “B” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - livro
Corpus desk
Index PT-book · book · Portuguese
book · rank #5,603 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,603
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-MID 840
- PHOTO-FINISH beijar
Nearest frequency peer: beijar (-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 “book”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- ascensão
ascensão
94,403 corpus weight
- bacana
bacana
94,401 corpus weight
- beijar
beijar
94,399 corpus weight
- book
book
94,398 corpus weight
- cego
cego
94,395 corpus weight
- cerebral
cerebral
94,394 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “book” 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 | book |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #5,603 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “book”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for book is neighbouring look-alikes ("boy", "box", …), not just typos; it is anoun. Frequency #5,603 among 840 “B” headwords. Gloss: "livro".
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for book, with forms such as "bbook", "boko", and "bookk". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "boy", "box", "bot", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Portuguese form is book, spelled B-O-O-K.
Definition
- 1livro
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how book appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
My life is an open book. (I have no secrets.)
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbook
- boko
- bookk
- obok
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of book - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "book", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).