cilada
/siˈla.dɐ/
The verdict
“cilada” has 8 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #16,704. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #16,704
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 2,140
- “C” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 12
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - emboscada feita para ataque ou captura, de modo a atrair a pessoa até ela
Corpus desk
Index PT-cilada · cilada · Portuguese
cilada · rank #16,704 · 8 variants · 12 confusables
- FREQ-MID #16,704
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 12 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,140
- PHOTO-FINISH cinturão
Nearest frequency peer: cinturão (+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 “cilada”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- budismo
budismo
83,306 corpus weight
- celulose
celulose
83,301 corpus weight
- cilada
cilada
83,297 corpus weight
- cinturão
cinturão
83,296 corpus weight
- community
community
83,291 corpus weight
- confidencial
confidencial
83,288 corpus weight
What this shows “cilada” 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 | cilada |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /siˈla.dɐ/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #16,704 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “cilada”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around cilada (IPA /siˈla.dɐ/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #16,704 among 2,140 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for cilada, with forms such as "ccilada", "cialda", and "cilaad". 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 12 confusable-pair relationships, "clara", "criada", "citado", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Portuguese form is cilada, spelled C-I-L-A-D-A.
Definition
- 1emboscada feita para ataque ou captura, de modo a atrair a pessoa até ela
- 2todo ardil que leva alguém a ser enganado, atraiçoado
- 3toda situação que leva alguém a ser enganado ou a cometer erro
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how cilada appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
A valorização da ação da Ambipar em 2024 faz os olhos de muitos investidores brilhar, mas pode representar uma cilada.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccilada
- cialda
- cilaad
- ciladda
- cildaa
- cillada
- cliada
- iclada
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cilada - 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.
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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "cilada", 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 (8 here; floor ≥5).