carrossel
/kɐ.Rɔ.ˈsɛɫ/
The verdict
“carrossel” has 10 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #18,275. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #18,275
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 3,948
- “C” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - brinquedo próprio de parques de diversões, constituído de uma grande peça circular que, girando em torno de um eixo vertical, tem em suas extremidades figuras de madeira ou de outro material, como ...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | carrossel |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /kɐ.Rɔ.ˈsɛɫ/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #18,275 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “carrossel” sits in Portuguese frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around carrossel (IPA /kɐ.Rɔ.ˈsɛɫ/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #18,275 among 3,948 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "brinquedo próprio de parques de diversões, constituído de uma grande peça circular que, girando em torno de um eixo vertical, tem em suas extremidades figuras de madeira ou de outro material, como ...".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for carrossel, with forms such as "acrrossel", "carorssel", and "carossel". 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. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Portuguese form is carrossel, spelled C-A-R-R-O-S-S-E-L.
Definition
- 1brinquedo próprio de parques de diversões, constituído de uma grande peça circular que, girando em torno de um eixo vertical, tem em suas extremidades figuras de madeira ou de outro material, como aviões, cavalos e assim sucessivamente, que servem de assento
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- acrrossel
- carorssel
- carossel
- carrosel
- carrosesl
- carrossell
- carrossle
- carrsosel
- ccarrossel
- crarossel
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of carrossel - 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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Using “carrossel”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is C-A-R-R-O-S-S-E-L - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /kɐ.Rɔ.ˈsɛɫ/ (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.