abad
/a'βad/
The verdict
“abad” has 5 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #39,941. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #39,941
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,900
- “A” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - abade, religioso superior de um mosteiro
Corpus desk
Index PT-abad · abad · Portuguese
abad · rank #39,941 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #39,941
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,900
- PHOTO-FINISH abdómen
Nearest frequency peer: abdómen (+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.
Pares de rank junto ao íman ortográfico “abad”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- zu
zu
60,066 corpus weight
- égide
égide
60,065 corpus weight
- abad
abad
60,060 corpus weight
- abdómen
abdómen
60,059 corpus weight
- abo
abo
60,057 corpus weight
- absinto
absinto
60,053 corpus weight
What this shows “abad” 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 | abad |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /a'βad/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #39,941 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “abad”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around abad (IPA /a'βad/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #39,941 among 1,900 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "abade, religioso superior de um mosteiro".
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for abad, with forms such as "aabd", "abadd", and "abbad". 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. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "and", "ama", "ABC", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists 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 abad, spelled A-B-A-D.
Definition
- 1abade, religioso superior de um mosteiro
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aabd
- abadd
- abbad
- abda
- baad
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of abad - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).