bossa
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#17,713
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
bossa is aPortuguesenoun. It means: protuberância anormal, nas costas ou no peito, resultante do desvio da espinha dorsal ou do esterno; corcova, geba, giba Often confused with bota and brisa.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bossa |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #17,713 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for bossa is 5 letters long, classified as anoun. Corpus data places it at rank #17,713 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for bossa, with forms such as "bbossa", "bosa", and "bosas". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "bota", "brisa", "bosta", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Portuguese form is bossa, spelled B-O-S-S-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1protuberância anormal, nas costas ou no peito, resultante do desvio da espinha dorsal ou do esterno; corcova, geba, giba
- 2protuberância boleada na superfície de um osso chato
- 3protuberância, calombo produzido por uma contusão; galo
- 4protuberância dorsal presente em certos animais, como o camelo e o dromedário; corcova, geba, giba
- 5saliência do crânio outrora considerada sinal de um desenvolvimento particular de determinada faculdade intelectual
- 6relevo, parte saliente de uma superfície plana
- 7inclinação para alguma atividade; vocação, talento
- 8condição ou virtude diferencial que faz uma pessoa ou uma coisa ser notada
- 9forma esférica que adquire a matéria vitrificada nas fábricas de vidro
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: bbossa,bosa,bosas,bsosa,obssa
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for bossa
Misspelling Variants of "bossa"
Frequency rank: #17,713 in Portuguese
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Nearby Portuguese words
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