afastamento
/ɐ.fɐʃ.tɐ.ˈmẽ.tu/
The verdict
“afastamento” has 16 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #9,789. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #9,789
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,900
- “A” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - ato ou efeito de afastar; distanciamento:
Corpus desk
Index PT-afastamento · afastamento · Portuguese
afastamento · rank #9,789 · 16 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,789
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 16 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,900
- PHOTO-FINISH ajuste
Nearest frequency peer: ajuste (+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 “afastamento”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- water
water
90,220 corpus weight
- Wikipédia
Wikipédia
90,219 corpus weight
- aceitável
aceitável
90,215 corpus weight
- afastamento
afastamento
90,212 corpus weight
- ajuste
ajuste
90,211 corpus weight
- ambição
ambição
90,206 corpus weight
What this shows “afastamento” 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 | afastamento |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ɐ.fɐʃ.tɐ.ˈmẽ.tu/ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #9,789 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “afastamento”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around afastamento (IPA /ɐ.fɐʃ.tɐ.ˈmẽ.tu/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #9,789 among 1,900 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for afastamento, with forms such as "aafstamento", "afasatmento", and "afasstamento". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "apartamento", "ajustamento", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Portuguese form is afastamento, spelled A-F-A-S-T-A-M-E-N-T-O.
Definition
- 1ato ou efeito de afastar; distanciamento:
- 2despedimento ou cessação coerciva de cargo:
- 3distância entre as faces da construção e os limites do terreno; o mesmo que recuo
- 4distância entre um ponto do espaço e o plano vertical de projeção
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how afastamento appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
O afastamento da fonte de calor reduz o risco de queimadura.
Com o afastamento daquele ministro, foi preciso nomear outro.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aafstamento
- afasatmento
- afasstamento
- afastaemnto
- afastamennto
- afastamenot
- afastamentto
- afastametno
- afastammento
- afastamneto
- afastmaento
- afasttamento
- afatsamento
- affastamento
- afsatamento
- faastamento
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of afastamento - 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 "afastamento", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (16 here; floor ≥5).