action
The verdict
“action” has 8 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #6,363. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #6,363
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,900
- “A” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - ação
Corpus desk
Index PT-action · action · Portuguese
action · rank #6,363 · 8 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #6,363
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,900
- PHOTO-FINISH abri
Nearest frequency peer: abri (-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 “action”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- about
about
93,640 corpus weight
- abri
abri
93,639 corpus weight
- action
action
93,638 corpus weight
- adesão
adesão
93,637 corpus weight
- adicionar
adicionar
93,636 corpus weight
- africanos
africanos
93,635 corpus weight
What this shows “action” 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 | action |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #6,363 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “action”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around action, anoun. Corpus frequency is #6,363 among 1,900 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "ação".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for action, with forms such as "acction", "aciton", and "actino". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "activa", "active", "acting", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct Portuguese form is action, spelled A-C-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1ação
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how action appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
A more likely course of action.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- acction
- aciton
- actino
- actionn
- actoin
- acttion
- atcion
- cation
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of action - 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
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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 (8 here; floor ≥5).