bout
/'baʊt/
The verdict
“bout” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #53,731 among 840 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,731
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 840
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - ataque (de uma doença)
Corpus desk
Index PT-bout · bout · Portuguese
bout · rank #53,731 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,731
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 840
- PHOTO-FINISH boro
Nearest frequency peer: boro (-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.
Ranks da cauda longa perto de “bout”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- Bier
Bier
46,279 corpus weight
- bordar
bordar
46,272 corpus weight
- boro
boro
46,271 corpus weight
- bout
bout
46,270 corpus weight
- Bulgaria
Bulgaria
46,268 corpus weight
- byte
byte
46,264 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “bout” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bout |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /'baʊt/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #53,731 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “bout” em português
Rare enough to double-check
bout is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #53,731 among 840 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /'baʊt/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
bout has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Our source data has no etymology on file 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 bout, spelled B-O-U-T.
Definition
- 1ataque (de uma doença)
- 2luta de boxe
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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