bosse
The verdict
“bosse” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #68,658 among 840 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,658
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 840
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - chefe
Corpus desk
Index PT-bosse · bosse · Portuguese
bosse · rank #68,658 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,658
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 840
- PHOTO-FINISH biomédico
Nearest frequency peer: biomédico (-10 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 “bosse”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- atarefado
atarefado
31,381 corpus weight
- atómico
atómico
31,375 corpus weight
- biomédico
biomédico
31,353 corpus weight
- bosse
bosse
31,343 corpus weight
- cercear
cercear
31,314 corpus weight
- clivagem
clivagem
31,304 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “bosse” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bosse |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #68,658 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “bosse” em português
Rare enough to double-check
bosse is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #68,658 among 840 “B” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "chefe".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for bosse, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Portuguese form is bosse, spelled B-O-S-S-E.
Definition
- 1chefe
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bosse appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Prostituição masculina em Lisboa
Cansaço, a longa estação
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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