canteiro
The verdict
“canteiro” has 11 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #16,956. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #16,956
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 2,140
- “C” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 10
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - operário que corta a pedra de construção
Corpus desk
Index PT-canteiro · canteiro · Portuguese
canteiro · rank #16,956 · 11 variants · 10 confusables
- FREQ-MID #16,956
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,140
- PHOTO-FINISH carrasco
Nearest frequency peer: carrasco (+2 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 “canteiro”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- brando
brando
83,054 corpus weight
- canteiro
canteiro
83,045 corpus weight
- carrasco
carrasco
83,043 corpus weight
- cartório
cartório
83,042 corpus weight
- cifra
cifra
83,038 corpus weight
- coerência
coerência
83,036 corpus weight
What this shows “canteiro” 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 | canteiro |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #16,956 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “canteiro”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around canteiro, anoun. Corpus frequency is #16,956 among 2,140 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 8 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for canteiro, with forms such as "acnteiro", "canetiro", and "cannteiro". 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 10 confusable-pair relationships, "caseiro", "centeio", "carteira", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 canteiro, spelled C-A-N-T-E-I-R-O.
Definition
- 1operário que corta a pedra de construção
- 2marmoreiro
- 3escultor em pedra
- 4o mesmo que alegrete
- 5peça de terreno ajardinado
- 6em uma horta, cada porção retangular e elevada de terreno na que são plantadas hortaliças, tabuleiro
- 7o mesmo que baixete
- 8terreno em volta de uma construção onde se realizam tarefas auxiliares à construção
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how canteiro appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Um dos principais protestos dos moradores, porém, é de que a construção do elevado colocaria abaixo o canteiro central da avenida, que está arborizado.
O advogado está convicto de que a companhia não teve culpa no desabamento do canteiro de obras.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- acnteiro
- canetiro
- cannteiro
- canteior
- canteirro
- canterio
- cantiero
- cantteiro
- catneiro
- ccanteiro
- cnateiro
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of canteiro - 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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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).