came
/ˈkɐ.mi/
The verdict
“came” has 5 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #24,551. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #24,551
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 2,140
- “C” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - conjunto de manivelas que estão colocadas sobre um mesmo eixo, usadas para mover o seguidor
Corpus desk
Index PT-came · came · Portuguese
came · rank #24,551 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #24,551
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,140
- PHOTO-FINISH calvário
Nearest frequency peer: calvário (-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 “came”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- benjamim
benjamim
75,462 corpus weight
- calvário
calvário
75,451 corpus weight
- came
came
75,450 corpus weight
- certeiro
certeiro
75,443 corpus weight
- chu
chu
75,442 corpus weight
- coceira
coceira
75,436 corpus weight
What this shows “came” 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 | came |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈkɐ.mi/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #24,551 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “came”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around came (IPA /ˈkɐ.mi/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #24,551 among 2,140 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "conjunto de manivelas que estão colocadas sobre um mesmo eixo, usadas para mover o seguidor".
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for came, with forms such as "acme", "caem", and "camme". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ce", "com", "cão", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 came, spelled C-A-M-E.
Definition
- 1conjunto de manivelas que estão colocadas sobre um mesmo eixo, usadas para mover o seguidor
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- acme
- caem
- camme
- ccame
- cmae
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of came - 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
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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).