Charles
/ʃaʁl/.
The verdict
“Charles” has 11 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #2,867. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #2,867
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 2,140
- “C” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Carlo, Carlos, Carolo, Charles
Corpus desk
Index PT-charles · Charles · Portuguese
Charles · rank #2,867 · 11 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #2,867
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,140
- PHOTO-FINISH carioca
Nearest frequency peer: carioca (-3 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 “Charles”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- arquitetura
arquitetura
97,140 corpus weight
- Bíblia
Bíblia
97,139 corpus weight
- carioca
carioca
97,137 corpus weight
- Charles
Charles
97,134 corpus weight
- depressão
depressão
97,130 corpus weight
- destruição
destruição
97,129 corpus weight
What this shows “Charles” 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 | Charles |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ʃaʁl/. |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #2,867 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “Charles”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around Charles (IPA /ʃaʁl/.), anoun. Corpus frequency is #2,867 among 2,140 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Carlo, Carlos, Carolo, Charles".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for Charles, with forms such as "cahrles", "ccharles", and "chalres". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "charme", "chalé", "Carlos", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology 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 Charles, spelled C-H-A-R-L-E-S.
Definition
- 1Carlo, Carlos, Carolo, Charles
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cahrles
- ccharles
- chalres
- charels
- charless
- charlles
- charlse
- charrles
- chharles
- chrales
- hcarles
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Charles - 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 "Charles", 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 (11 here; floor ≥5).