alter
The verdict
“alter” has 6 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #23,189. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #23,189
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,900
- “A” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - outro (dentre dois)
Corpus desk
Index PT-alter · alter · Portuguese
alter · rank #23,189 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #23,189
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,900
- PHOTO-FINISH ajustado
Nearest frequency peer: ajustado (-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 “alter”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- abstenção
abstenção
76,824 corpus weight
- ajustado
ajustado
76,813 corpus weight
- alter
alter
76,812 corpus weight
- andavam
andavam
76,808 corpus weight
- APA
APA
76,805 corpus weight
- artrite
artrite
76,798 corpus weight
What this shows “alter” 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 | alter |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Pronoun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #23,189 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “alter”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around alter, apronoun. Corpus frequency is #23,189 among 1,900 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "outro (dentre dois)".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for alter, with forms such as "aletr", "allter", and "alterr". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "até", "alto", "arte", 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 its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Portuguese form is alter, spelled A-L-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1outro (dentre dois)
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how alter appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Obs.: Ver alius,
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aletr
- allter
- alterr
- altre
- altter
- atler
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of alter - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).