burlar
/buɾ.ˈlaɾ/
The verdict
“burlar” has 9 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #29,252. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #29,252
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 840
- “B” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 11
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - enganar
Corpus desk
Index PT-burlar · burlar · Portuguese
burlar · rank #29,252 · 9 variants · 11 confusables
- FREQ-MID #29,252
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 11 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 840
- PHOTO-FINISH branqueamento
Nearest frequency peer: branqueamento (-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 “burlar”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- bitch
bitch
70,755 corpus weight
- branqueamen…
branqueamento
70,751 corpus weight
- burlar
burlar
70,749 corpus weight
- calo
calo
70,745 corpus weight
- camaleão
camaleão
70,744 corpus weight
- cantão
cantão
70,742 corpus weight
What this shows “burlar” 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 | burlar |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /buɾ.ˈlaɾ/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #29,252 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “burlar”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around burlar (IPA /buɾ.ˈlaɾ/), averb. Corpus frequency is #29,252 among 840 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for burlar, with forms such as "bburlar", "brular", and "bulrar". 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 11 confusable-pair relationships, "burra", "buscar", "bula", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Portuguese form is burlar, spelled B-U-R-L-A-R.
Definition
- 1enganar
- 2fraudar
- 3zombar
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bburlar
- brular
- bulrar
- buralr
- burlarr
- burllar
- burlra
- burrlar
- ubrlar
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of burlar - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "burlar", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).