agravar
/ɐ.ɡɾɐ.ˈvaɾ/
The verdict
“agravar” has 10 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #22,513. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #22,513
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,900
- “A” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - ação de tornar mais grave
Corpus desk
Index PT-agravar · agravar · Portuguese
agravar · rank #22,513 · 10 variants · 9 confusables
- FREQ-MID #22,513
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,900
- PHOTO-FINISH ajoelhar
Nearest frequency peer: ajoelhar (+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 “agravar”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- óxido
óxido
77,495 corpus weight
- adoptar
adoptar
77,491 corpus weight
- agravar
agravar
77,488 corpus weight
- ajoelhar
ajoelhar
77,487 corpus weight
- Albânia
Albânia
77,486 corpus weight
- alçada
alçada
77,483 corpus weight
What this shows “agravar” 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 | agravar |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ɐ.ɡɾɐ.ˈvaɾ/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #22,513 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “agravar”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around agravar (IPA /ɐ.ɡɾɐ.ˈvaɾ/), averb. Corpus frequency is #22,513 among 1,900 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 6 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for agravar, with forms such as "agarvar", "aggravar", and "agraavr". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 9 confusable-pair relationships, "agravo", "aprovar", "atrasar", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file 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 agravar, spelled A-G-R-A-V-A-R.
Definition
- 1ação de tornar mais grave
- 2constranger com carga ou sobrecarregar
- 3aumentar preços, valores ou taxas
- 4ato de causar sofrimento ou mágoa
- 5ato de causar sofrimento ou mágoa
- 6ação de interpor instrumento de agravo
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how agravar appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Não foi intencional agravar você com toda essa discussão.
Agravou a todos com esse discurso sem pé nem cabeça.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- agarvar
- aggravar
- agraavr
- agravarr
- agravra
- agravvar
- agrravar
- agrvaar
- argavar
- garavar
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of agravar - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 "agravar", 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).