boy
/bɔɪ/
The verdict
“boy” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #3,884) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #3,884
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 840
- “B” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - garoto, rapaz, jovem
Corpus desk
Index PT-boy · boy · Portuguese
boy · rank #3,884 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #3,884
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 840
- PHOTO-FINISH ativo
Nearest frequency peer: ativo (-3 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 “boy”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- arrumar
arrumar
96,121 corpus weight
- ativo
ativo
96,120 corpus weight
- boy
boy
96,117 corpus weight
- cobre
cobre
96,113 corpus weight
- comemorar
comemorar
96,112 corpus weight
- criminal
criminal
96,111 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “boy” 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 | boy |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /bɔɪ/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #3,884 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “boy”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for boy is neighbouring look-alikes ("by", "BR", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced /bɔɪ/. Frequency #3,884 among 840 “B” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
boy doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "by", "BR", "but", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Portuguese form is boy, spelled B-O-Y.
Definition
- 1garoto, rapaz, jovem
- 2menino
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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