bagrevsBaseWhich spelling fits?

Which to use

“bagre” and “Base” are a confusable Portuguese pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.

#42,322
“bagre” frequency rank
#422
“Base” frequency rank
42744
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature bagre Base
Definition designação comum dada aos peixes da ordem Siluriformes na maior parte da América do Sul base

Letter map: bagre vs Base

Shared letters muted; letters that set bagre and Base apart highlighted. Shared run: 3.

5 ch
bagre
4 ch
Base

Spelling & dictionary notes on bagre vs Base

bagre and Base are indexed as a confusable Portuguese pair. We have no recorded pronunciation or part of speech for both members, so the spelling overlap is what we can show you: they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 42744, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

bagre is recorded at frequency rank #42,322, classified as anoun. Base is at rank #422, tagged as anoun, pronounced /baːzə/.

Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.

With a confusion score of 42744, this pair ranks #23,001 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of bagre vs Base

Shared letters: abe. Private to "bagre": gr. Private to "Base": s.

"bagre" · 5 letters · shape CVCCV  ·  "Base" · 4 letters · shape CVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • bagreabgre · bager · baggre · bagrre · barge · bbagre · bgare
  • Baseabse · baes · basse · bbase · bsae

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "bagre" and "Base" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No. They differ by 1 letter(s) in length, but the dictionary glosses above give them different meanings, so swapping one for the other changes what the sentence says.
Frequency check: "bagre" vs "Base" - which ranks higher?
"Base" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #422 in our Portuguese list, against #42,322 for "bagre". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

What to do next

You've compared "bagre" and "Base". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "bagre" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "Base" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #23,001 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "bagre" and "Base" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "baga vs bagre". Nearby pair
  • Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes

Confusion rank #23,001 of 75,631 scored Portuguese pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list