cercado
/sɨɾ.ˈka.du/
The verdict
“cercado” has 10 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #8,164. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #8,164
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 2,140
- “C” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - rodeado ou contornado por uma barreira
Corpus desk
Index PT-cercado · cercado · Portuguese
cercado · rank #8,164 · 10 variants · 9 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #8,164
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,140
- PHOTO-FINISH carona
Nearest frequency peer: carona (-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 “cercado”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- 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
- comunitário
comunitário
91,832 corpus weight
What this shows “cercado” 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 | cercado |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /sɨɾ.ˈka.du/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #8,164 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “cercado”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around cercado (IPA /sɨɾ.ˈka.du/), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #8,164 among 2,140 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for cercado, with forms such as "ccercado", "cecrado", and "ceracdo". 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 9 confusable-pair relationships, "cerco", "cercar", "cerrado", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct Portuguese form is cercado, spelled C-E-R-C-A-D-O.
Definition
- 1rodeado ou contornado por uma barreira
- 2que tem várias pessoas a sua volta ou imediações
- 3que é objeto ou centro de (atenções, mimos, cuidado, etc.)
- 4aquele que sofreu um cerco
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cercado appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Estava cercado de pessoas desconhecidas.
Ela cresceu cercada de cuidados.
Synonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccercado
- cecrado
- ceracdo
- cercaddo
- cercaod
- cerccado
- cercdao
- cerrcado
- crecado
- ecrcado
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cercado - 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 "cercado", 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).