caramba
/kɐ.ˈɾɐ̃.bɐ/
The verdict
“caramba” has 10 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #4,378. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #4,378
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 2,140
- “C” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - indica surpresa ou admiração
Corpus desk
Index PT-caramba · caramba · Portuguese
caramba · rank #4,378 · 10 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #4,378
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,140
- PHOTO-FINISH chegado
Nearest frequency peer: chegado (+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 “caramba”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- aposta
aposta
95,631 corpus weight
- benefício
benefício
95,627 corpus weight
- Bernardo
Bernardo
95,625 corpus weight
- caramba
caramba
95,623 corpus weight
- chegado
chegado
95,622 corpus weight
- científico
científico
95,620 corpus weight
What this shows “caramba” 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 | caramba |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| IPA | /kɐ.ˈɾɐ̃.bɐ/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #4,378 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “caramba”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around caramba (IPA /kɐ.ˈɾɐ̃.bɐ/), aninterjection. Corpus frequency is #4,378 among 2,140 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "indica surpresa ou admiração".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for caramba, with forms such as "acramba", "caarmba", and "carabma". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "carma", "carimbo", "caxumba", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 caramba, spelled C-A-R-A-M-B-A.
Definition
- 1indica surpresa ou admiração
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how caramba appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Caramba! O que é que aconteceu aqui? Está tudo uma bagunça!
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- acramba
- caarmba
- carabma
- caramab
- carambba
- carammba
- carmaba
- carramba
- ccaramba
- craamba
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of caramba - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "caramba", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).