clown
/klun/
The verdict
“clown” has 8 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #41,399. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #41,399
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 2,140
- “C” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - palhaço
Corpus desk
Index PT-clown · clown · Portuguese
clown · rank #41,399 · 8 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #41,399
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,140
- PHOTO-FINISH coice
Nearest frequency peer: coice (+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 “clown”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- bucket
bucket
58,623 corpus weight
- cadeirante
cadeirante
58,618 corpus weight
- clown
clown
58,602 corpus weight
- coice
coice
58,600 corpus weight
- conspiracy
conspiracy
58,589 corpus weight
- contenda
contenda
58,587 corpus weight
What this shows “clown” 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 | clown |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /klun/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #41,399 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “clown”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around clown (IPA /klun/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #41,399 among 2,140 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "palhaço".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for clown, with forms such as "cclown", "cllown", and "clonw". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "coin", "crowd", "close", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Portuguese form is clown, spelled C-L-O-W-N.
Definition
- 1palhaço
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cclown
- cllown
- clonw
- clownn
- clowwn
- clwon
- colwn
- lcown
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of clown - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 "clown", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).