afundar
/ɐ.fũ.ˈdaɾ/
The verdict
“afundar” has 10 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #14,066. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #14,066
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,900
- “A” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - fazer ir ao fundo, submergir
Corpus desk
Index PT-afundar · afundar · Portuguese
afundar · rank #14,066 · 10 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,066
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,900
- PHOTO-FINISH alienação
Nearest frequency peer: alienação (+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 “afundar”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- acidental
acidental
85,941 corpus weight
- afundar
afundar
85,935 corpus weight
- alienação
alienação
85,933 corpus weight
- Amsterdã
Amsterdã
85,932 corpus weight
- apóstolo
apóstolo
85,930 corpus weight
- assado
assado
85,928 corpus weight
What this shows “afundar” 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 | afundar |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ɐ.fũ.ˈdaɾ/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #14,066 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “afundar”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around afundar (IPA /ɐ.fũ.ˈdaɾ/), averb. Corpus frequency is #14,066 among 1,900 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for afundar, with forms such as "affundar", "afnudar", and "afudnar". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "andar", "ajudar", "afinar", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 afundar, spelled A-F-U-N-D-A-R.
Definition
- 1fazer ir ao fundo, submergir
- 2tornar fundo, aprofundar
- 3no basquetebol, levar a bola com a mão até dentro do cesto
- 4ir ao fundo; submergir-se
- 5falir; cair na ruína; perder-se
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how afundar appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
O torpedo atingiu o cargueiro, afundando-o.
Afundou o poço até encontrar água.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- affundar
- afnudar
- afudnar
- afunadr
- afundarr
- afunddar
- afundra
- afunndar
- aufndar
- faundar
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of afundar - 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 "afundar", 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).