chapa
/ˈʃa.pɐ/
The verdict
“chapa” has 7 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #5,920. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #5,920
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 2,140
- “C” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - peça chata e plana de metal
Corpus desk
Index PT-chapa · chapa · Portuguese
chapa · rank #5,920 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,920
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,140
- PHOTO-FINISH cavaleiro
Nearest frequency peer: cavaleiro (-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 “chapa”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- bravo
bravo
94,084 corpus weight
- bruto
bruto
94,083 corpus weight
- cavaleiro
cavaleiro
94,082 corpus weight
- chapa
chapa
94,081 corpus weight
- colapso
colapso
94,078 corpus weight
- coma
coma
94,076 corpus weight
What this shows “chapa” 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 | chapa |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈʃa.pɐ/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #5,920 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “chapa”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around chapa (IPA /ˈʃa.pɐ/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #5,920 among 2,140 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 6 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for chapa, with forms such as "cahpa", "cchapa", and "chaap". 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, "copa", "chat", "chip", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct Portuguese form is chapa, spelled C-H-A-P-A.
Definition
- 1peça chata e plana de metal
- 2lâmina (pode ser de materiais diversos, como metal, madeira, plástico, etc)
- 3placa que se coloca atrás de um automóvel e que o identifica com um número único
- 4conjunto de pessoas que se apresentam em grupo para uma eleição
- 5radiografia
- 6chute lateral, no qual emprega-se a sola do pé para atingir a cabeça ou o tronco do oponente
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how chapa appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mas ao ser questionado se aceitaria ser candidato a vice-prefeito novamente, numa chapa encabeçada pelo PSDB, Kassab despistou.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cahpa
- cchapa
- chaap
- chappa
- chhapa
- chpaa
- hcapa
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of chapa - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 "chapa", 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).