bruxa
/ˈbɾu.ʃɐ/
The verdict
“bruxa” has 7 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #8,437. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #8,437
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 840
- “B” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 14
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - mulher que faz bruxarias; feiticeira; maga; mágica; vidente:
Corpus desk
Index PT-bruxa · bruxa · Portuguese
bruxa · rank #8,437 · 7 variants · 14 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #8,437
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 14 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 840
- PHOTO-FINISH caminhando
Nearest frequency peer: caminhando (+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.
Pares de rank junto ao íman ortográfico “bruxa”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- barão
barão
91,568 corpus weight
- berço
berço
91,567 corpus weight
- bruxa
bruxa
91,564 corpus weight
- caminhando
caminhando
91,563 corpus weight
- cancelamento
cancelamento
91,562 corpus weight
- cerrado
cerrado
91,560 corpus weight
What this shows “bruxa” está entre estes pares FrequencyWords; a profundidade de typo mede-se à parte no gráfico de distância de edição.
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 | bruxa |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈbɾu.ʃɐ/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #8,437 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 14 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “bruxa”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around bruxa (IPA /ˈbɾu.ʃɐ/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #8,437 among 840 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for bruxa, with forms such as "bbruxa", "brruxa", and "bruax". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 14 confusable-pair relationships, "bula", "bruxo", "broa", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is bruxa, spelled B-R-U-X-A.
Definition
- 1mulher que faz bruxarias; feiticeira; maga; mágica; vidente:
- 2mulher feia, antipática e/ou rabugenta; megera
- 3a luz fraca ou o pavio de lamparina
- 4mariposas, de diversas espécies (essencialmente a Ascalapha odorata) de grande tamanho e cor escura
- 5designação comum a vários peixes de mar (do gênero Scyliorhinus) presentes na região portuguesa do Douro
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how bruxa appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
... e nas garras desta bruxa maldita!...
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbruxa
- brruxa
- bruax
- bruxxa
- brxua
- burxa
- rbuxa
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of bruxa - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).