boon
/buːn/
The verdict
“boon” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #41,373) as an adjective. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #41,373
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 840
- “B” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - bom, próspero
Corpus desk
Index PT-boon · boon · Portuguese
boon · rank #41,373 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #41,373
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-MID 840
- PHOTO-FINISH bok
Nearest frequency peer: bok (-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 “boon”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- bloc
bloc
58,631 corpus weight
- bok
bok
58,629 corpus weight
- boon
boon
58,628 corpus weight
- Bornéu
Bornéu
58,627 corpus weight
- brook
brook
58,624 corpus weight
- bucket
bucket
58,623 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “boon” 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 | boon |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /buːn/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #41,373 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “boon”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for boon is neighbouring look-alikes ("boy", "box", …), not just typos; it is anadjective pronounced /buːn/. Frequency #41,373 among 840 “B” headwords. 3 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for boon, with forms such as "bboon", "bono", and "boonn". 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, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Portuguese form is boon, spelled B-O-O-N.
Definition
- 1bom, próspero
- 2gentil, caridoso
- 3alegre, jovial
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bboon
- bono
- boonn
- obon
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of boon - 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 "boon", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).