alcunha
The verdict
“alcunha” has 10 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #21,648. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #21,648
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,900
- “A” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - epíteto que se dá a qualquer pessoa e pelo qual fica sendo conhecida
Corpus desk
Index PT-alcunha · alcunha · Portuguese
alcunha · rank #21,648 · 10 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #21,648
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,900
- PHOTO-FINISH alt
Nearest frequency peer: alt (+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 “alcunha”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- acreditaram
acreditaram
78,361 corpus weight
- adentro
adentro
78,358 corpus weight
- administrat…
administration
78,356 corpus weight
- alcunha
alcunha
78,353 corpus weight
- alt
alt
78,351 corpus weight
- amargura
amargura
78,349 corpus weight
What this shows “alcunha” está entre estes pares FrequencyWords; a profundidade de typo mede-se à parte no gráfico de distância de edição.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | alcunha |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #21,648 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “alcunha”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around alcunha, anoun. Corpus frequency is #21,648 among 1,900 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "epíteto que se dá a qualquer pessoa e pelo qual fica sendo conhecida".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for alcunha, with forms such as "aclunha", "alccunha", and "alcnuha". 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. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is alcunha, spelled A-L-C-U-N-H-A.
Definition
- 1epíteto que se dá a qualquer pessoa e pelo qual fica sendo conhecida
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how alcunha appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Exemplos de alcunhas notórias: "Pelé", "Tiradentes", "Xuxa".
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aclunha
- alccunha
- alcnuha
- alcuhna
- alcunah
- alcunhha
- alcunnha
- allcunha
- alucnha
- lacunha
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of alcunha - 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 "alcunha", 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).