câncer

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for câncer is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈkɐ̃.sɛɾ/. Corpus data places it at rank #1,607 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "doença caracterizada por rápida multiplicação celular irrefreada de uma célula que teve seu ADN danosamente modificado".

Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for câncer, with forms such as "ccâncer", "cnâcer", and "câcner". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 12 confusable-pair relationships, "chance", "cantar", "conter", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Portuguese form is câncer, spelled C-Â-N-C-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.