cálculo
The verdict
“cálculo” has 10 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #5,724. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #5,724
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 3,948
- “C” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - operação aritmética, tal como soma, subtração, multiplicação ou divisão
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 | cálculo |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #5,724 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “cálculo” sits in Portuguese frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around cálculo, anoun. Corpus frequency is #5,724 among 3,948 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 7 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for cálculo, with forms such as "ccálculo", "cláculo", and "cáclulo". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "casulo", "círculo", "cálcio", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Portuguese form is cálculo, spelled C-Á-L-C-U-L-O.
Definition
- 1operação aritmética, tal como soma, subtração, multiplicação ou divisão
- 2processo envolvendo diversas operações artiméticas
- 3avaliação
- 4nome vulgar da disciplina ensinada no início de cursos de ciências exatas, tais como Física, Engenharia ou Química; é uma contração, pois o nome completo é Cálculo Diferencial e Integral, por exemplo
- 5estimação de custos e lucros em atividades financeiras
- 6concreção em reservatórios e ductos orgânicos
- 7cobiça
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccálculo
- cláculo
- cáclulo
- cálcculo
- cálcluo
- cálcullo
- cálcuol
- cállculo
- cáluclo
- áclculo
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cálculo - 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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Using “cálculo”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is C-Á-L-C-U-L-O - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Don't mix it up with “casulo” - see the side-by-side comparison. cálculo vs casulo
- Browse more Portuguese words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Portuguese words
Same frequency band
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.