ancestral
/ɐ̃.sɨʃ.ˈtɾaɫ/
The verdict
“ancestral” has 14 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #11,386. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #11,386
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,900
- “A” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - relativo a antepassados
Corpus desk
Index PT-ancestral · ancestral · Portuguese
ancestral · rank #11,386 · 14 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #11,386
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,900
- PHOTO-FINISH algoritmo
Nearest frequency peer: algoritmo (-3 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 “ancestral”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- agarrar
agarrar
88,622 corpus weight
- alegação
alegação
88,619 corpus weight
- algoritmo
algoritmo
88,618 corpus weight
- ancestral
ancestral
88,615 corpus weight
- apurar
apurar
88,611 corpus weight
- arrecadar
arrecadar
88,609 corpus weight
What this shows “ancestral” está entre estes pares FrequencyWords; a profundidade de typo mede-se à parte no gráfico de distância de edição.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ancestral |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ɐ̃.sɨʃ.ˈtɾaɫ/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #11,386 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “ancestral”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around ancestral (IPA /ɐ̃.sɨʃ.ˈtɾaɫ/), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #11,386 among 1,900 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for ancestral, with forms such as "acnestral", "anccestral", and "ancesrtal". 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 confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Portuguese form is ancestral, spelled A-N-C-E-S-T-R-A-L.
Definition
- 1relativo a antepassados
- 2relativo a avoengos
- 3avito
- 4antigo
- 5ascendente
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- acnestral
- anccestral
- ancesrtal
- ancesstral
- ancestarl
- ancestrall
- ancestrla
- ancestrral
- ancesttral
- ancetsral
- ancsetral
- anecstral
- anncestral
- nacestral
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of ancestral - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "ancestral", 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 (14 here; floor ≥5).