boxe
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#7,737
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
boxe is aPortuguesenoun. It means: jogo de murro em que dois contendores, com luvas especiais, se defrontam; pugilismo Pronounced /ˈbɔ.ksɨ/. It ranks #7,737 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with boy and bué.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | boxe |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈbɔ.ksɨ/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #7,737 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for boxe is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈbɔ.ksɨ/. Corpus data places it at rank #7,737 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 4 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 boxe, with forms such as "bboxe", "boex", and "boxxe". 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, "boy", "bué", "bule", 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 boxe, spelled B-O-X-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1jogo de murro em que dois contendores, com luvas especiais, se defrontam; pugilismo
- 2armadura metálica para os dedos, para se darem socos
- 3compartimento de cavalariça, mercado, garagem, central telefônica, etc., ou em banheiro, para o chuveiro
- 4parte delimitada de uma página impressa geralmente por fios ou cercadura
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: bboxe,boex,boxxe,bxoe,obxe
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for boxe
Misspelling Variants of "boxe"
Frequency rank: #7,737 in Portuguese
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Nearby Portuguese words
Other entries that begin with the letter B in our Portuguese index: