acender
/ɐ.sẽ.ˈdeɾ/
The verdict
“acender” has 10 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #10,817. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #10,817
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,900
- “A” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - pôr fogo a
Corpus desk
Index PT-acender · acender · Portuguese
acender · rank #10,817 · 10 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #10,817
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,900
- PHOTO-FINISH abolição
Nearest frequency peer: abolição (-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 “acender”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- why
why
89,187 corpus weight
- abolição
abolição
89,186 corpus weight
- acender
acender
89,184 corpus weight
- acústico
acústico
89,181 corpus weight
- adjunto
adjunto
89,180 corpus weight
- admirar
admirar
89,179 corpus weight
What this shows “acender” 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 | acender |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ɐ.sẽ.ˈdeɾ/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #10,817 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “acender”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around acender (IPA /ɐ.sẽ.ˈdeɾ/), averb. Corpus frequency is #10,817 among 1,900 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for acender, with forms such as "accender", "acedner", and "acendder". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "atender", "aprender", "ascender", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 acender, spelled A-C-E-N-D-E-R.
Definition
- 1pôr fogo a
- 2fazer arder
- 3ligar
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how acender appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
A principal suspeita é que um deles tenha usado um isqueiro para acender um cigarro ou uma lâmpada durante a escavação, o que teria provocado a explosão.
Com oito polegadas, a tela permite que o médico acione 50 funções sem parar a operação ou pedir ajuda, como acender ou apagar as luzes da sala.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- accender
- acedner
- acendder
- acenderr
- acendre
- acenedr
- acennder
- acneder
- aecnder
- caender
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of acender - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "acender", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).