azul
/ɐ.ˈzuɫ/
The verdict
“azul” has 5 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #1,136. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,136
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,900
- “A” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - da cor do céu, do oceano
Corpus desk
Index PT-azul · azul · Portuguese
azul · rank #1,136 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,136
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,900
- PHOTO-FINISH administração
Nearest frequency peer: administração (-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 “azul”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- seguida
seguida
98,868 corpus weight
- som
som
98,867 corpus weight
- administraç…
administração
98,866 corpus weight
- azul
azul
98,865 corpus weight
- carreira
carreira
98,864 corpus weight
- cena
cena
98,862 corpus weight
What this shows “azul” 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 | azul |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ɐ.ˈzuɫ/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #1,136 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “azul”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around azul (IPA /ɐ.ˈzuɫ/), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #1,136 among 1,900 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for azul, with forms such as "auzl", "azlu", and "azull". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "al", "all", "atl", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Portuguese form is azul, spelled A-Z-U-L.
Definition
- 1da cor do céu, do oceano
- 2que está em estado em que se sente uma intensa sensação
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how azul appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Que tem para comer? Estou azul de fome!
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- auzl
- azlu
- azull
- azzul
- zaul
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of azul - 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 "azul", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).