cervo
/ˈsɛɾ.vu/
The verdict
“cervo” has 7 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #29,629. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #29,629
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 2,140
- “C” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - mamífero ruminante da família dos cervídeos, com chifres ramificados, que vive em rebanhos
Corpus desk
Index PT-cervo · cervo · Portuguese
cervo · rank #29,629 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #29,629
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,140
- PHOTO-FINISH celeridade
Nearest frequency peer: celeridade (-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 “cervo”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- calção
calção
70,380 corpus weight
- CEI
CEI
70,376 corpus weight
- celeridade
celeridade
70,373 corpus weight
- cervo
cervo
70,372 corpus weight
- Cirilo
Cirilo
70,365 corpus weight
- clandestini…
clandestinidade
70,364 corpus weight
What this shows “cervo” 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 | cervo |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈsɛɾ.vu/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #29,629 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “cervo”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around cervo (IPA /ˈsɛɾ.vu/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #29,629 among 2,140 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "mamífero ruminante da família dos cervídeos, com chifres ramificados, que vive em rebanhos".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for cervo, with forms such as "ccervo", "cerov", and "cerrvo". 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, "coro", "Ciro", "corpo", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists 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 cervo, spelled C-E-R-V-O.
Definition
- 1mamífero ruminante da família dos cervídeos, com chifres ramificados, que vive em rebanhos
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccervo
- cerov
- cerrvo
- cervvo
- cevro
- crevo
- ecrvo
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cervo - 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 "cervo", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).