atravessar
/ɐ.tɾɐ.vɨ.ˈsaɾ/
The verdict
“atravessar” has 13 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #5,912. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #5,912
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,900
- “A” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - transitivo
Corpus desk
Index PT-atravessar · atravessar · Portuguese
atravessar · rank #5,912 · 13 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-COMMON #5,912
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,900
- PHOTO-FINISH apanhar
Nearest frequency peer: apanhar (-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 “atravessar”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- adolescência
adolescência
94,094 corpus weight
- apanhar
apanhar
94,090 corpus weight
- atravessar
atravessar
94,089 corpus weight
- bico
bico
94,087 corpus weight
- bravo
bravo
94,084 corpus weight
- bruto
bruto
94,083 corpus weight
What this shows “atravessar” 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 | atravessar |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ɐ.tɾɐ.vɨ.ˈsaɾ/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #5,912 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “atravessar”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around atravessar (IPA /ɐ.tɾɐ.vɨ.ˈsaɾ/), averb. Corpus frequency is #5,912 among 1,900 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 10 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for atravessar, with forms such as "artavessar", "atarvessar", and "atraevssar". 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. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "atravessado", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
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 atravessar, spelled A-T-R-A-V-E-S-S-A-R.
Definition
- 1transitivo
- 2transitivo
- 3transitivo
- 4transitivo
- 5transitivo
- 6transitivo
- 7transitivo
- 8reflexo
- 9reflexo
- 10reflexo
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how atravessar appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
"A flecha araguaia também partiu e foi atravessar nos ares a outra que tornava à terra."
"O guerreiro cristão atravessou a cabana e sumiu-se na treva."
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- artavessar
- atarvessar
- atraevssar
- atravesar
- atravesasr
- atravessarr
- atravessra
- atravsesar
- atravvessar
- atrravessar
- atrvaessar
- attravessar
- taravessar
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of atravessar - 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 "atravessar", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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).