cheque
The verdict
“cheque” has 8 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #10,149. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #10,149
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 2,140
- “C” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - ordem de débito, em papel, do emitente para o banco onde ele tem conta corrente para pagar determinada quantia ao beneficiário
Corpus desk
Index PT-cheque · cheque · Portuguese
cheque · rank #10,149 · 8 variants · 9 confusables
- FREQ-MID #10,149
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,140
- PHOTO-FINISH cimento
Nearest frequency peer: cimento (+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 “cheque”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- cadela
cadela
89,859 corpus weight
- cebola
cebola
89,857 corpus weight
- cera
cera
89,856 corpus weight
- cheque
cheque
89,852 corpus weight
- cimento
cimento
89,851 corpus weight
- classificar
classificar
89,850 corpus weight
What this shows “cheque” 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 | cheque |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #10,149 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “cheque”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around cheque, anoun. Corpus frequency is #10,149 among 2,140 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "ordem de débito, em papel, do emitente para o banco onde ele tem conta corrente para pagar determinada quantia ao beneficiário".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for cheque, with forms such as "ccheque", "cehque", and "cheqeu". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 9 confusable-pair relationships, "coque", "clique", "choque", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, 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 cheque, spelled C-H-E-Q-U-E.
Definition
- 1ordem de débito, em papel, do emitente para o banco onde ele tem conta corrente para pagar determinada quantia ao beneficiário
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how cheque appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Para pessoa física, a taxa máxima do cheque especial vai recuar para 8,56% ao mês; no crédito pessoal, para 5,91%; e no CDC veículos, para 2,68%.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccheque
- cehque
- cheqeu
- cheqque
- cheuqe
- chheque
- chqeue
- hceque
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cheque - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).