box
The verdict
“box” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #6,381) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #6,381
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 840
- “B” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - cada espaço subdividido por parede ou extrutura similar e que é destinado ao uso comercial dentro de uma construção maior
Corpus desk
Index PT-box · box · Portuguese
box · rank #6,381 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #6,381
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 840
- PHOTO-FINISH bilhão
Nearest frequency peer: bilhão (-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 “box”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- besta
besta
93,623 corpus weight
- bilhão
bilhão
93,621 corpus weight
- box
box
93,620 corpus weight
- Caetano
Caetano
93,618 corpus weight
- caneta
caneta
93,617 corpus weight
- capitalismo
capitalismo
93,616 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “box” 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 | box |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #6,381 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “box”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for box is neighbouring look-alikes ("by", "BR", …), not just typos; it is anoun. Frequency #6,381 among 840 “B” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
No generated misspelling entries exist for box in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Portuguese rules. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "by", "BR", "boy", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct Portuguese form is box, spelled B-O-X.
Definition
- 1cada espaço subdividido por parede ou extrutura similar e que é destinado ao uso comercial dentro de uma construção maior
- 2cada espaço subdividido que fica destinado a uma equipe na área do padoque
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how box appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Nos imóveis desocupados, há dezenas de boxes (de até 5 m2) oferecidos, em média, a R$ 5 mil por mês aos novos inquilinos - a maioria, comerciantes chineses.
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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