BR
The verdict
“BR” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #2,004) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #2,004
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 840
- “B” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - rodovia de competência federal, da União
Corpus desk
Index PT-br · BR · Portuguese
BR · rank #2,004 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #2,004
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 840
- PHOTO-FINISH audiência
Nearest frequency peer: audiência (-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 “BR”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- viajar
viajar
98,001 corpus weight
- all
all
98,000 corpus weight
- audiência
audiência
97,998 corpus weight
- BR
BR
97,997 corpus weight
- co
co
97,996 corpus weight
- defender
defender
97,994 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “BR” 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 | BR |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #2,004 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “BR”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for BR is neighbouring look-alikes ("by", "but", …), not just typos; it is anoun. Frequency #2,004 among 840 “B” headwords. Gloss: "rodovia de competência federal, da União".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for BR, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "by", "but", "Bus", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Portuguese form is BR, spelled B-R.
Definition
- 1rodovia de competência federal, da União
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how BR appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Nós vamos trafegar por muitas BRs.
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.