bum
The verdict
“bum” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #16,457) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #16,457
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 840
- “B” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - crescimento
Corpus desk
Index PT-bum · bum · Portuguese
bum · rank #16,457 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #16,457
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 840
- PHOTO-FINISH Bósnia
Nearest frequency peer: Bósnia (+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 “bum”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- autenticida…
autenticidade
83,551 corpus weight
- babe
babe
83,549 corpus weight
- bingo
bingo
83,547 corpus weight
- bum
bum
83,544 corpus weight
- Bósnia
Bósnia
83,543 corpus weight
- caju
caju
83,542 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “bum” 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 | bum |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #16,457 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “bum”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for bum is neighbouring look-alikes ("by", "but", …), not just typos; it is anoun. Frequency #16,457 among 840 “B” headwords. Gloss: "crescimento".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for bum, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. 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.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct Portuguese form is bum, spelled B-U-M.
Definition
- 1crescimento
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bum appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Em relação a construção civil, Lupi considerou que o setor passa por um “bum”
Na resposta começou por justificar a insuficiência de muitos serviços pelo bum demográfico na província.
Synonyms
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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Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).