artista
The verdict
“artista” is a regularly-used Portuguese word, ranked #1,455 in Portuguese word frequency and used as a noun.
- #1,455
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 7
- letters
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - aquele que produz arte
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 | artista |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #1,455 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “artista” sits in Portuguese frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for artista is 7 letters long, classified as a noun. Corpus data places it at rank #1,455 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "aquele que produz arte".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for artista, with forms such as "aritsta", "arrtista", and "artisat". 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 also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "autista", "artist", "arrasta", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
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 artista, spelled A-R-T-I-S-T-A.
Definition
- 1aquele que produz arte
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: aritsta,arrtista,artisat,artissta,artistta,artitsa,artsita,arttista,atrista,ratista
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of artista - 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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Using “artista”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is A-R-T-I-S-T-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Don't mix it up with “autista” - see the side-by-side comparison. artista vs autista
- Browse more Portuguese words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Portuguese words
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.