alusão
The verdict
“alusão” has 7 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #10,301. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #10,301
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 4,352
- “A” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - ação ou resultado de aludir; menção, referência
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 | alusão |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #10,301 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “alusão” sits in Portuguese frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around alusão, anoun. Corpus frequency is #10,301 among 4,352 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "ação ou resultado de aludir; menção, referência".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for alusão, with forms such as "allusão", "alsuão", and "alusoã". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 9 confusable-pair relationships, "also", "aluno", "abuso", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is alusão, spelled A-L-U-S-Ã-O.
Definition
- 1ação ou resultado de aludir; menção, referência
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- allusão
- alsuão
- alusoã
- alussão
- aluãso
- aulsão
- lausão
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of alusão - 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.
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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Using “alusão”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is A-L-U-S-Ã-O - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Don't mix it up with “also” - see the side-by-side comparison. alusão vs also
- Browse more Portuguese words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Portuguese words
Same frequency band
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.