capivara
The verdict
“capivara” has 11 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #30,864. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #30,864
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 3,948
- “C” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - maior mamífero roedor existente, habita regiões alagadiças da América do Sul
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 | capivara |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #30,864 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “capivara” sits in Portuguese frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around capivara, anoun. Corpus frequency is #30,864 among 3,948 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for capivara, with forms such as "acpivara", "caipvara", and "capiavra". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "cativar", "capixaba", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 capivara, spelled C-A-P-I-V-A-R-A.
Definition
- 1maior mamífero roedor existente, habita regiões alagadiças da América do Sul
- 2mulher feia
- 3ficha criminal
- 4jogador muito fraco
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- acpivara
- caipvara
- capiavra
- capivaar
- capivarra
- capivraa
- capivvara
- cappivara
- capviara
- ccapivara
- cpaivara
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of capivara - 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 “capivara”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is C-A-P-I-V-A-R-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Don't mix it up with “cativar” - see the side-by-side comparison. capivara vs cativar
- 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.