boot
/ˈbot/
The verdict
“boot” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #24,249) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #24,249
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 840
- “B” headwords
- 3
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - barco
Corpus desk
Index PT-boot · boot · Portuguese
boot · rank #24,249 · 3 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #24,249
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 3 variants
- BOOK-MID 840
- PHOTO-FINISH Capricórnio
Nearest frequency peer: Capricórnio (+3 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 “boot”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- arenas
arenas
75,765 corpus weight
- boot
boot
75,752 corpus weight
- Capricórnio
Capricórnio
75,749 corpus weight
- chassi
chassi
75,745 corpus weight
- ciclovia
ciclovia
75,743 corpus weight
- coibir
coibir
75,739 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “boot” 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 | boot |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈbot/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #24,249 |
| Misspellings tracked | 3 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “boot”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for boot is neighbouring look-alikes ("boy", "box", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced /ˈbot/. Frequency #24,249 among 840 “B” headwords. Gloss: "barco".
Our generated misspelling index lists 3 likely wrong-spelling variants for boot, with forms such as "bboot", "boott", and "obot". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "boy", "box", "but", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Portuguese form is boot, spelled B-O-O-T.
Definition
- 1barco
Synonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bboot
- boott
- obot
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of boot - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).