autismo
/aw.ˈtiʒ.mu/
The verdict
“autismo” has 9 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #17,977. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #17,977
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,900
- “A” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - transtorno do desenvolvimento (mais especificamente um transtorno invasivo do desenvolvimento) que se manifesta na infância caracterizado por dificuldades de socialização, comunicação e interação s...
Corpus desk
Index PT-autismo · autismo · Portuguese
autismo · rank #17,977 · 9 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #17,977
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,900
- PHOTO-FINISH basco
Nearest frequency peer: basco (+2 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 “autismo”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- anarquia
anarquia
82,035 corpus weight
- arrow
arrow
82,030 corpus weight
- autismo
autismo
82,024 corpus weight
- basco
basco
82,022 corpus weight
- beneficente
beneficente
82,018 corpus weight
- brutalidade
brutalidade
82,014 corpus weight
What this shows “autismo” 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 | autismo |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /aw.ˈtiʒ.mu/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #17,977 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “autismo”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around autismo (IPA /aw.ˈtiʒ.mu/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #17,977 among 1,900 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "transtorno do desenvolvimento (mais especificamente um transtorno invasivo do desenvolvimento) que se manifesta na infância caracterizado por dificuldades de socialização, comunicação e interação s...".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for autismo, with forms such as "atuismo", "auitsmo", and "autimso". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "autista", "abismo", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology 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 autismo, spelled A-U-T-I-S-M-O.
Definition
- 1transtorno do desenvolvimento (mais especificamente um transtorno invasivo do desenvolvimento) que se manifesta na infância caracterizado por dificuldades de socialização, comunicação e interação social, falta de contato visual e por padrões repetitivos, estereotipados ou restritos de comportamento e de pensamento
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- atuismo
- auitsmo
- autimso
- autismmo
- autisom
- autissmo
- autsimo
- auttismo
- uatismo
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of autismo - 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 "autismo", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).