cafeína
[kafeˈina], plural: [kafeˈinas]
The verdict
“cafeína” has 9 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #19,354. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #19,354
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 2,140
- “C” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - alcaloide do grupo das xantinas usado como estimulante, C₈H₁₀N₄O₂
Corpus desk
Index PT-cafeina · cafeína · Portuguese
cafeína · rank #19,354 · 9 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,354
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,140
- PHOTO-FINISH canoagem
Nearest frequency peer: canoagem (+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 “cafeína”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- Brett
Brett
80,650 corpus weight
- cafeína
cafeína
80,647 corpus weight
- canoagem
canoagem
80,645 corpus weight
- capão
capão
80,643 corpus weight
- cartilha
cartilha
80,641 corpus weight
- catalisador
catalisador
80,638 corpus weight
What this shows “cafeína” 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 | cafeína |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kafeˈina], plural: [kafeˈinas] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #19,354 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “cafeína”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around cafeína (IPA [kafeˈina], plural: [kafeˈinas]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #19,354 among 2,140 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "alcaloide do grupo das xantinas usado como estimulante, C₈H₁₀N₄O₂".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for cafeína, with forms such as "acfeína", "caefína", and "cafenía". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "caverna", "campina", "cantina", and more, 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 cafeína, spelled C-A-F-E-Í-N-A.
Definition
- 1alcaloide do grupo das xantinas usado como estimulante, C₈H₁₀N₄O₂
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- acfeína
- caefína
- cafenía
- cafeían
- cafeínna
- caffeína
- cafíena
- ccafeína
- cfaeína
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cafeína - 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 "cafeína", 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).