cálcio
/ˈkałsju/
The verdict
“cálcio” has 8 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #12,642. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #12,642
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 2,140
- “C” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 15
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - elemento químico de símbolo Ca, número atômico 20 e massa atômica relativa 40,078; não é encontrado livre na natureza, apesar de ser o quinto elemento mais abundante do planeta; é encontrado na for...
Corpus desk
Index PT-calcio · cálcio · Portuguese
cálcio · rank #12,642 · 8 variants · 15 confusables
- FREQ-MID #12,642
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 15 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,140
- PHOTO-FINISH deep
Nearest frequency peer: deep (+4 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 “cálcio”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- coloração
coloração
87,372 corpus weight
- cálcio
cálcio
87,359 corpus weight
- deep
deep
87,355 corpus weight
- desligado
desligado
87,352 corpus weight
- disfarçado
disfarçado
87,349 corpus weight
- diva
diva
87,346 corpus weight
What this shows “cálcio” 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 | cálcio |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈkałsju/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #12,642 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 15 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “cálcio”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around cálcio (IPA /ˈkałsju/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #12,642 among 2,140 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "elemento químico de símbolo Ca, número atômico 20 e massa atômica relativa 40,078; não é encontrado livre na natureza, apesar de ser o quinto elemento mais abundante do planeta; é encontrado na for...".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for cálcio, with forms such as "ccálcio", "clácio", and "cáclio". 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 15 confusable-pair relationships, "calo", "calmo", "caldo", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Portuguese form is cálcio, spelled C-Á-L-C-I-O.
Definition
- 1elemento químico de símbolo Ca, número atômico 20 e massa atômica relativa 40,078; não é encontrado livre na natureza, apesar de ser o quinto elemento mais abundante do planeta; é encontrado na forma de carbonatos, sulfatos, fluoretos, fosfatos, silicatos e boratos, como mármore, giz, pedra e cal; tem importantes aplicações nas ligas de chumbo e alumínio e como desoxidante de ferro, aço e cobre
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccálcio
- clácio
- cáclio
- cálccio
- cálcoi
- cálico
- cállcio
- áclcio
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cálcio - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 "cálcio", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).