church
/t͡ʃɜːt͡ʃ/ (UK); /t͡ʃɝt͡ʃ/ (US)
The verdict
“church” has 10 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #15,277. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #15,277
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 2,140
- “C” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - igreja (local destinado a culto religioso, normalmente cristão)
Corpus desk
Index PT-church · church · Portuguese
church · rank #15,277 · 10 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #15,277
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,140
- PHOTO-FINISH castanha
Nearest frequency peer: castanha (-2 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 “church”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- baterista
baterista
84,734 corpus weight
- bonde
bonde
84,732 corpus weight
- canoa
canoa
84,728 corpus weight
- castanha
castanha
84,726 corpus weight
- church
church
84,724 corpus weight
- concha
concha
84,716 corpus weight
What this shows “church” está entre estes pares FrequencyWords; a profundidade de typo mede-se à parte no gráfico de distância de edição.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | church |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /t͡ʃɜːt͡ʃ/ (UK); /t͡ʃɝt͡ʃ/ (US) |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #15,277 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “church”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around church (IPA /t͡ʃɜːt͡ʃ/ (UK); /t͡ʃɝt͡ʃ/ (US)), anoun. Corpus frequency is #15,277 among 2,140 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for church, with forms such as "cchurch", "chhurch", and "chruch". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Portuguese form is church, spelled C-H-U-R-C-H.
Definition
- 1igreja (local destinado a culto religioso, normalmente cristão)
- 2organização religiosa, normalmente cristã
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cchurch
- chhurch
- chruch
- chucrh
- churcch
- churchh
- churhc
- churrch
- cuhrch
- hcurch
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of church - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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.
Frequently Asked Questions
How do you spell "church"?
What does "church" mean?
What are common misspellings of "church"?
How do you pronounce "church"?
What language does "church" come from?
Is PlainSpell free to use?
Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "church", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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 (10 here; floor ≥5).