carona
/kaˈɾõna/_(plural:) /kaˈɾõnas/ ou /kaˈɾõnaʃ/
The verdict
“carona” has 8 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #8,163. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #8,163
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 2,140
- “C” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - ato de transportar em um veículo, normalmente de forma gratuita
Corpus desk
Index PT-carona · carona · Portuguese
carona · rank #8,163 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #8,163
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,140
- PHOTO-FINISH cercado
Nearest frequency peer: cercado (+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 “carona”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- brevemente
brevemente
91,844 corpus weight
- brutal
brutal
91,843 corpus weight
- calçada
calçada
91,841 corpus weight
- carona
carona
91,838 corpus weight
- cercado
cercado
91,837 corpus weight
- charme
charme
91,836 corpus weight
What this shows “carona” 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 | carona |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /kaˈɾõna/_(plural:) /kaˈɾõnas/ ou /kaˈɾõnaʃ/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #8,163 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “carona”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around carona (IPA /kaˈɾõna/_(plural:) /kaˈɾõnas/ ou /kaˈɾõnaʃ/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #8,163 among 2,140 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for carona, with forms such as "acrona", "caorna", and "carnoa". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "cona", "carta", "coroa", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology 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 carona, spelled C-A-R-O-N-A.
Definition
- 1ato de transportar em um veículo, normalmente de forma gratuita
- 2peça de arreio
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- acrona
- caorna
- carnoa
- caroan
- caronna
- carrona
- ccarona
- craona
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of carona - 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 "carona", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).