bug
The verdict
“bug” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #15,035) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #15,035
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 840
- “B” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - chatear
Corpus desk
Index PT-bug · bug · Portuguese
bug · rank #15,035 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #15,035
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 840
- PHOTO-FINISH bravura
Nearest frequency peer: bravura (-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 “bug”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- bolinho
bolinho
84,969 corpus weight
- born
born
84,968 corpus weight
- bravura
bravura
84,967 corpus weight
- bug
bug
84,966 corpus weight
- cagar
cagar
84,964 corpus weight
- caldeirão
caldeirão
84,963 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “bug” 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 | bug |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #15,035 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “bug”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for bug is neighbouring look-alikes ("by", "but", …), not just typos; it is averb. Frequency #15,035 among 840 “B” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
No generated misspelling entries exist for bug in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "by", "but", "Bus", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology 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 bug, spelled B-U-G.
Definition
- 1chatear
- 2grampear (um telefone, por exemplo)
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how bug appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Bug her phone.
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 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).