americano
/a.me.ɾi.ˈkã.nu/
The verdict
“americano” has 12 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #842. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #842
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,900
- “A” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - da América (continente)
Corpus desk
Index PT-americano · americano · Portuguese
americano · rank #842 · 12 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #842
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,900
- PHOTO-FINISH acabar
Nearest frequency peer: acabar (-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 “americano”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- tema
tema
99,161 corpus weight
- acabar
acabar
99,160 corpus weight
- americano
americano
99,159 corpus weight
- ataque
ataque
99,158 corpus weight
- atualmente
atualmente
99,157 corpus weight
- Autor
Autor
99,156 corpus weight
What this shows “americano” 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 | americano |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /a.me.ɾi.ˈkã.nu/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #842 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “americano”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around americano (IPA /a.me.ɾi.ˈkã.nu/), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #842 among 1,900 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for americano, with forms such as "aemricano", "ameircano", and "amerciano". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "africano", "Americana", "americanas", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Portuguese form is americano, spelled A-M-E-R-I-C-A-N-O.
Definition
- 1da América (continente)
- 2dos Estados Unidos da América
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aemricano
- ameircano
- amerciano
- ameriacno
- americanno
- americaon
- americcano
- americnao
- amerricano
- ammericano
- amreicano
- maericano
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of americano - 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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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "americano", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).