colesterol
/kolesteˈɾɔw/ plural: /kolesteˈɾɔjs/
The verdict
“colesterol” has 15 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #19,083. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #19,083
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 2,140
- “C” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - esterol sintetizado pelo fígado e transportado pela corrente sanguínea para as membranas celulares todas as células animais
Corpus desk
Index PT-colesterol · colesterol · Portuguese
colesterol · rank #19,083 · 15 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,083
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,140
- PHOTO-FINISH coeficiente
Nearest frequency peer: coeficiente (-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 “colesterol”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- Berg
Berg
80,929 corpus weight
- Butão
Butão
80,925 corpus weight
- charge
charge
80,923 corpus weight
- coeficiente
coeficiente
80,919 corpus weight
- colesterol
colesterol
80,918 corpus weight
- Comics
Comics
80,915 corpus weight
What this shows “colesterol” está entre estes pares FrequencyWords; a profundidade de typo mede-se à parte no gráfico de distância de edição.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | colesterol |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /kolesteˈɾɔw/ plural: /kolesteˈɾɔjs/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #19,083 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “colesterol”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around colesterol (IPA /kolesteˈɾɔw/ plural: /kolesteˈɾɔjs/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #19,083 among 2,140 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "esterol sintetizado pelo fígado e transportado pela corrente sanguínea para as membranas celulares todas as células animais".
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for colesterol, with forms such as "ccolesterol", "cloesterol", and "coelsterol". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct Portuguese form is colesterol, spelled C-O-L-E-S-T-E-R-O-L.
Definition
- 1esterol sintetizado pelo fígado e transportado pela corrente sanguínea para as membranas celulares todas as células animais
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccolesterol
- cloesterol
- coelsterol
- colesetrol
- colessterol
- colesteorl
- colesterlo
- colesteroll
- colesterrol
- colestreol
- colestterol
- coletserol
- collesterol
- colseterol
- oclesterol
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of colesterol - 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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