autêntico
The verdict
“autêntico” has 12 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #11,805. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #11,805
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,900
- “A” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - não falso, nem copiado; genuíno
Corpus desk
Index PT-autentico · autêntico · Portuguese
autêntico · rank #11,805 · 12 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #11,805
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,900
- PHOTO-FINISH auxiliares
Nearest frequency peer: auxiliares (+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 “autêntico”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- Ari
Ari
88,202 corpus weight
- ash
ash
88,198 corpus weight
- autêntico
autêntico
88,196 corpus weight
- auxiliares
auxiliares
88,195 corpus weight
- azeite
azeite
88,191 corpus weight
- bit
bit
88,186 corpus weight
What this shows “autêntico” está entre estes pares FrequencyWords; a profundidade de typo mede-se à parte no gráfico de distância de edição.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | autêntico |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #11,805 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “autêntico”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around autêntico, anadjective. Corpus frequency is #11,805 among 1,900 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for autêntico, with forms such as "atuêntico", "autnêtico", and "auttêntico". 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. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Our source data has no etymology on file 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 autêntico, spelled A-U-T-Ê-N-T-I-C-O.
Definition
- 1não falso, nem copiado; genuíno
- 2que tem a origem provado por evidência inquestionável; autentificado; verificado
- 3verdadeiro
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how autêntico appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
O hotel e cassino tem seu próprio Museu Rei Tut, com “reproduções autênticas do que vem sendo chamado de as maiores descobertas arqueológicas da história do mundo”.
A PF não se limitou a dizer que não podia considerar autênticas as notas fiscais, por não saber se os negócios a que se referiam efetivamente ocorreram.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- atuêntico
- autnêtico
- auttêntico
- autênitco
- autênntico
- autêntcio
- autênticco
- autêntioc
- autênttico
- autêtnico
- auêtntico
- uatêntico
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of autêntico - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "autêntico", 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).