bos
/bɔs/
The verdict
“bos” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #41,858) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #41,858
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 840
- “B” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - floresta, bosque
Corpus desk
Index PT-bos · bos · Portuguese
bos · rank #41,858 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #41,858
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 840
- PHOTO-FINISH borrar
Nearest frequency peer: borrar (-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 “bos”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- benefit
benefit
58,152 corpus weight
- borrar
borrar
58,144 corpus weight
- bos
bos
58,143 corpus weight
- broa
broa
58,140 corpus weight
- buscador
buscador
58,137 corpus weight
- caderneta
caderneta
58,134 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “bos” 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 | bos |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /bɔs/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #41,858 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “bos”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for bos is neighbouring look-alikes ("by", "BR", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced /bɔs/. Frequency #41,858 among 840 “B” headwords. Gloss: "floresta, bosque".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for bos, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "by", "BR", "boy", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Portuguese form is bos, spelled B-O-S.
Definition
- 1floresta, bosque
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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Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).