bactéria
/bɐˈk.tɛ.ɾjɐ/
The verdict
“bactéria” has 11 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #15,996. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #15,996
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 840
- “B” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - organismos unicelulares pertencentes ao reino monera podendo ser encontrados na forma isolada ou em colônias; são constituídos somente por uma célula sem um verdadeiro núcleo celular nem organelos ...
Corpus desk
Index PT-bacteria · bactéria · Portuguese
bactéria · rank #15,996 · 11 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #15,996
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 840
- PHOTO-FINISH blitz
Nearest frequency peer: blitz (+3 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 “bactéria”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- arqueiro
arqueiro
84,016 corpus weight
- astronomia
astronomia
84,010 corpus weight
- bactéria
bactéria
84,005 corpus weight
- blitz
blitz
84,002 corpus weight
- brega
brega
84,000 corpus weight
- cascavel
cascavel
83,995 corpus weight
What this shows “bactéria” 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 | bactéria |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /bɐˈk.tɛ.ɾjɐ/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #15,996 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “bactéria”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around bactéria (IPA /bɐˈk.tɛ.ɾjɐ/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #15,996 among 840 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "organismos unicelulares pertencentes ao reino monera podendo ser encontrados na forma isolada ou em colônias; são constituídos somente por uma célula sem um verdadeiro núcleo celular nem organelos ...".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for bactéria, with forms such as "abctéria", "bacctéria", and "bactréia". 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, "batera", "bateria", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 bactéria, spelled B-A-C-T-É-R-I-A.
Definition
- 1organismos unicelulares pertencentes ao reino monera podendo ser encontrados na forma isolada ou em colônias; são constituídos somente por uma célula sem um verdadeiro núcleo celular nem organelos membranosos
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- abctéria
- bacctéria
- bactréia
- bacttéria
- bactéira
- bactérai
- bactérria
- bacétria
- batcéria
- bbactéria
- bcatéria
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of bactéria - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).