ambulância
/ɐ̃.bu.ˈlɐ̃.sjɐ/
The verdict
“ambulância” has 14 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #11,580. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #11,580
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,900
- “A” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - qualidade ou estado do que é ambulante; errância
Corpus desk
Index PT-ambulancia · ambulância · Portuguese
ambulância · rank #11,580 · 14 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #11,580
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,900
- PHOTO-FINISH amargo
Nearest frequency peer: amargo (-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 “ambulância”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- alone
alone
88,424 corpus weight
- amargo
amargo
88,422 corpus weight
- ambulância
ambulância
88,421 corpus weight
- anfitrião
anfitrião
88,420 corpus weight
- aproveitame…
aproveitamento
88,418 corpus weight
- aquecer
aquecer
88,417 corpus weight
What this shows “ambulância” está entre estes pares FrequencyWords; a profundidade de typo mede-se à parte no gráfico de distância de edição.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ambulância |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ɐ̃.bu.ˈlɐ̃.sjɐ/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #11,580 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “ambulância”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around ambulância (IPA /ɐ̃.bu.ˈlɐ̃.sjɐ/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #11,580 among 1,900 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for ambulância, with forms such as "abmulância", "ambbulância", and "ambluância". 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. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is ambulância, spelled A-M-B-U-L-Â-N-C-I-A.
Definition
- 1qualidade ou estado do que é ambulante; errância
- 2veículo preparado para transportar doentes ou feridos e para prestar assistência no local ou durante o transporte:
- 3veículo usado como hospital móvel
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how ambulância appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
A parturiente deu à luz na própria ambulância.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- abmulância
- ambbulância
- ambluância
- ambullância
- ambulnâcia
- ambulâcnia
- ambulâncai
- ambulânccia
- ambulânica
- ambulânncia
- ambuâlncia
- ammbulância
- amublância
- mabulância
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of ambulância - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).