cimento
/si.ˈmẽ.tu/
The verdict
“cimento” has 10 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #10,150. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #10,150
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 2,140
- “C” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - mistura em pó de calcário e de argila cuja argamassa adquire muita dureza e resistência
Corpus desk
Index PT-cimento · cimento · Portuguese
cimento · rank #10,150 · 10 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #10,150
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,140
- PHOTO-FINISH cheque
Nearest frequency peer: cheque (-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 “cimento”
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 “cimento” 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 | cimento |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /si.ˈmẽ.tu/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #10,150 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “cimento”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around cimento (IPA /si.ˈmẽ.tu/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #10,150 among 2,140 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "mistura em pó de calcário e de argila cuja argamassa adquire muita dureza e resistência".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for cimento, with forms such as "ccimento", "ciemnto", and "cimennto". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "cinto", "cento", "cabimento", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Portuguese form is cimento, spelled C-I-M-E-N-T-O.
Definition
- 1mistura em pó de calcário e de argila cuja argamassa adquire muita dureza e resistência
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how cimento appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Bandidos levaram 50 quilos de explosivos de uma fábrica de cimento da Camargo Corrêa, em Ijaci, no sul de Minas Gerais.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccimento
- ciemnto
- cimennto
- cimenot
- cimentto
- cimetno
- cimmento
- cimneto
- cmiento
- icmento
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cimento - 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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).