antecessor
The verdict
“antecessor” has 13 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #17,423. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #17,423
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,900
- “A” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - aquele que antecede, que vem antes, que é anterior
Corpus desk
Index PT-antecessor · antecessor · Portuguese
antecessor · rank #17,423 · 13 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #17,423
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,900
- PHOTO-FINISH alface
Nearest frequency peer: alface (-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 “antecessor”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- agredido
agredido
82,584 corpus weight
- ale
ale
82,582 corpus weight
- alface
alface
82,581 corpus weight
- antecessor
antecessor
82,578 corpus weight
- aptidão
aptidão
82,574 corpus weight
- arrastado
arrastado
82,572 corpus weight
What this shows “antecessor” está entre estes pares FrequencyWords; a profundidade de typo mede-se à parte no gráfico de distância de edição.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | antecessor |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #17,423 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “antecessor”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around antecessor, anoun. Corpus frequency is #17,423 among 1,900 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "aquele que antecede, que vem antes, que é anterior".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for antecessor, with forms such as "anetcessor", "anntecessor", and "antceessor". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 antecessor, spelled A-N-T-E-C-E-S-S-O-R.
Definition
- 1aquele que antecede, que vem antes, que é anterior
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how antecessor appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ao contrário de seu antecessor, no entanto, Mbeki retira-se da política sul- africana pela porta dos fundos.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- anetcessor
- anntecessor
- antceessor
- anteccessor
- antecesor
- antecesosr
- antecessorr
- antecessro
- antecsesor
- anteecssor
- anttecessor
- atnecessor
- natecessor
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of antecessor - 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 (13 here; floor ≥5).