cham
/kæm/
The verdict
“cham” has 6 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #44,752. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #44,752
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 2,140
- “C” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - um certo tipo de autocrata
Corpus desk
Index PT-cham · cham · Portuguese
cham · rank #44,752 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #44,752
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,140
- PHOTO-FINISH centralidade
Nearest frequency peer: centralidade (-4 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 “cham”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- bósnio
bósnio
55,269 corpus weight
- califado
califado
55,262 corpus weight
- centralidade
centralidade
55,253 corpus weight
- cham
cham
55,249 corpus weight
- conformismo
conformismo
55,232 corpus weight
- controlador…
controladoria
55,225 corpus weight
What this shows “cham” 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 | cham |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /kæm/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #44,752 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “cham”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around cham (IPA /kæm/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #44,752 among 2,140 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "um certo tipo de autocrata".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for cham, with forms such as "cahm", "ccham", and "chamm". 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, "com", "clã", "chi", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Portuguese form is cham, spelled C-H-A-M.
Definition
- 1um certo tipo de autocrata
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cahm
- ccham
- chamm
- chham
- chma
- hcam
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cham - 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 "cham", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).