canivete
/kɐ.ni.ˈvɛ.tɨ/
The verdict
“canivete” has 11 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #31,675. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #31,675
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 3,948
- “C” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - espécie de faca geralmente pequena ou média, com lâmina que retrai para o interior do cabo, podendo ser multi-uso com um agrupamento de elementos da cutelaria e outros mais ou menos usuais de fácil...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | canivete |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /kɐ.ni.ˈvɛ.tɨ/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #31,675 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “canivete” sits in Portuguese frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around canivete (IPA /kɐ.ni.ˈvɛ.tɨ/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #31,675 among 3,948 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "espécie de faca geralmente pequena ou média, com lâmina que retrai para o interior do cabo, podendo ser multi-uso com um agrupamento de elementos da cutelaria e outros mais ou menos usuais de fácil...".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for canivete, with forms such as "acnivete", "cainvete", and "canievte". 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. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Portuguese form is canivete, spelled C-A-N-I-V-E-T-E.
Definition
- 1espécie de faca geralmente pequena ou média, com lâmina que retrai para o interior do cabo, podendo ser multi-uso com um agrupamento de elementos da cutelaria e outros mais ou menos usuais de fácil portabilidade
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- acnivete
- cainvete
- canievte
- caniveet
- canivette
- canivtee
- canivvete
- cannivete
- canviete
- ccanivete
- cnaivete
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of canivete - 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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Using “canivete”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is C-A-N-I-V-E-T-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /kɐ.ni.ˈvɛ.tɨ/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.