bor
The verdict
“bor” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #72,280 among 840 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,280
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 840
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - boro, elemento químico de número atômico 5 e símbolo B:
Corpus desk
Index PT-bor · bor · Portuguese
bor · rank #72,280 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #72,280
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 840
- PHOTO-FINISH bisão
Nearest frequency peer: bisão (-6 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.
Ranks da cauda longa perto de “bor”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- binômio
binômio
27,730 corpus weight
- biodisponib…
biodisponibilidade
27,729 corpus weight
- bisão
bisão
27,727 corpus weight
- bor
bor
27,721 corpus weight
- calvinismo
calvinismo
27,709 corpus weight
- cambista
cambista
27,707 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “bor” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bor |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #72,280 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “bor” em português
Rare enough to double-check
bor is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #72,280 among 840 “B” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "boro, elemento químico de número atômico 5 e símbolo B:".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for bor, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Portuguese rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Portuguese form is bor, spelled B-O-R.
Definition
- 1boro, elemento químico de número atômico 5 e símbolo B:
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how bor appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
El bor és un element no metàl.lic pertanyent al grup III-A de la taula periòdica.
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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