bulimia
/bu.li.ˈmi.ɐ/
The verdict
“bulimia” has 9 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #39,510. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #39,510
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 840
- “B” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - desejo compulsivo de comer
Corpus desk
Index PT-bulimia · bulimia · Portuguese
bulimia · rank #39,510 · 9 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #39,510
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 840
- PHOTO-FINISH cadente
Nearest frequency peer: cadente (+2 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 “bulimia”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- blau
blau
60,500 corpus weight
- bulimia
bulimia
60,491 corpus weight
- cadente
cadente
60,489 corpus weight
- capanga
capanga
60,486 corpus weight
- carreiro
carreiro
60,484 corpus weight
- chacal
chacal
60,476 corpus weight
What this shows “bulimia” está entre estes pares FrequencyWords; a profundidade de typo mede-se à parte no gráfico de distância de edição.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bulimia |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /bu.li.ˈmi.ɐ/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #39,510 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “bulimia”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around bulimia (IPA /bu.li.ˈmi.ɐ/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #39,510 among 840 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "desejo compulsivo de comer".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for bulimia, with forms such as "bbulimia", "bluimia", and "builmia". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 bulimia, spelled B-U-L-I-M-I-A.
Definition
- 1desejo compulsivo de comer
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbulimia
- bluimia
- builmia
- buliima
- bulimai
- bulimmia
- bullimia
- bulmiia
- ublimia
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of bulimia - 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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Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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