category
/ˈkætəˌgoɹi/
The verdict
“category” has 12 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #34,184. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #34,184
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 2,140
- “C” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - categoria
Corpus desk
Index PT-category · category · Portuguese
category · rank #34,184 · 12 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #34,184
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,140
- PHOTO-FINISH cassar
Nearest frequency peer: cassar (-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 “category”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- calm
calm
65,825 corpus weight
- canastra
canastra
65,823 corpus weight
- cassar
cassar
65,818 corpus weight
- category
category
65,817 corpus weight
- celibato
celibato
65,814 corpus weight
- centrar
centrar
65,811 corpus weight
What this shows “category” 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 | category |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈkætəˌgoɹi/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #34,184 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “category”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around category (IPA /ˈkætəˌgoɹi/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #34,184 among 2,140 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "categoria".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for category, with forms such as "actegory", "caetgory", and "categgory". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "categoria", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is category, spelled C-A-T-E-G-O-R-Y.
Definition
- 1categoria
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- actegory
- caetgory
- categgory
- categorry
- categoryy
- categoyr
- categroy
- cateogry
- catgeory
- cattegory
- ccategory
- ctaegory
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of category - 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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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "category", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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 (12 here; floor ≥5).