afetado

adj

The verdict

“afetado” has 9 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #10,641. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#10,641
frequency rank, Portuguese
1,900
“A” headwords
9
tracked misspellings
13
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - que mostra afetação, que não é natural ou é exagerado

Corpus desk

Index PT-afetado · afetado · Portuguese

afetado · rank #10,641 · 9 variants · 13 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #10,641
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 13 pairs
  • VAR-MID 9 variants
  • BOOK-MID 1,900
  • PHOTO-FINISH acústica

Nearest frequency peer: acústica (-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 “afetado”

Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho

corpus weight

What this shows “afetado” está entre estes pares FrequencyWords; a profundidade de typo mede-se à parte no gráfico de distância de edição.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

afetado vs afeto
71% similar
afetado vs atado
71% similar
afetado vs afetar
71% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for afetado
PropertyValue
Headwordafetado
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechAdjective
Letters7
Frequency rank#10,641
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs13
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequência do íman ortográfico “afetado”

Esta escala corre do núcleo do português quotidiano (esquerda) até o rastro de formas raras (direita).afetadocai aqui:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

A escala é logarítmica (cada marca ≈ 10× mais rara). Na mesma faixa de raridade aparecem “acústica” (#10,639), “alfabeto” (#10,643), “acostumar” (#10,637). Entre 1,900 lemas com “A”, “afetado” fica em #10,641. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 9 spelling variants around afetado, anadjective. Corpus frequency is #10,641 among 1,900 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 6 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for afetado, with forms such as "aeftado", "afeatdo", and "afetaddo". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 13 confusable-pair relationships, "afeto", "atado", "afetar", 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 any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Portuguese form is afetado, spelled A-F-E-T-A-D-O.

Definition

  1. 1
    que mostra afetação, que não é natural ou é exagerado
  2. 2
    sujeito pedante, presunçoso e vaidoso
  3. 3
    que sofreu afecção ou possuidor de alguma doença
  4. 4
    cometido por uma sensação ou por um sentimento de afeição
  5. 5
    indivíduo que acometido pela tuberculose
  6. 6
    que apresenta características afeminadas

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how afetado appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Comportamento afetado.
  2. Está afetado dos pulmões.

Synonyms

alambicadoamaneiradoarrebicadobuscadodengosoenfáticoespanéficoinzoneiropedantepernósticopreciosopresumidopresunçosopretensiososestroso

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • aeftado
  • afeatdo
  • afetaddo
  • afetaod
  • afetdao
  • afettado
  • affetado
  • afteado
  • faetado

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of afetado - 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.

aeftado2afeatdo2afetaddo1afetaod2afetdao2afettado1affetado1afteado2
Edit distance from "afetado"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "afetado"?
"afetado" is spelled A-F-E-T-A-D-O.
What does "afetado" mean?
As an adjective, "afetado" means: que mostra afetação, que não é natural ou é exagerado
What words are commonly confused with "afetado"?
"afetado" is commonly confused with "afeto", "atado", "afetar". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "afetado" come from?
"afetado" is a Portuguese word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
Is PlainSpell free to use?
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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "afetado", 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 (9 here; floor ≥5).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list