colunista
The verdict
“colunista” has 13 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #10,492. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #10,492
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 2,140
- “C” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - profissional do jornalismo que trabalha escrevendo regularmente para veículos de comunicação (jornais, revistas, rádio, TV, websites), produzindo textos não necessariamente noticiosos denominados c...
Corpus desk
Index PT-colunista · colunista · Portuguese
colunista · rank #10,492 · 13 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #10,492
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,140
- PHOTO-FINISH comerciante
Nearest frequency peer: comerciante (+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 “colunista”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- caravana
caravana
89,517 corpus weight
- castanho
castanho
89,516 corpus weight
- Ciro
Ciro
89,511 corpus weight
- colunista
colunista
89,509 corpus weight
- comerciante
comerciante
89,508 corpus weight
- company
company
89,506 corpus weight
What this shows “colunista” 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 | colunista |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #10,492 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “colunista”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around colunista, anoun. Corpus frequency is #10,492 among 2,140 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "profissional do jornalismo que trabalha escrevendo regularmente para veículos de comunicação (jornais, revistas, rádio, TV, websites), produzindo textos não necessariamente noticiosos denominados c...".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for colunista, with forms such as "ccolunista", "clounista", and "collunista". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "comunista", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct Portuguese form is colunista, spelled C-O-L-U-N-I-S-T-A.
Definition
- 1profissional do jornalismo que trabalha escrevendo regularmente para veículos de comunicação (jornais, revistas, rádio, TV, websites), produzindo textos não necessariamente noticiosos denominados colunas
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how colunista appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
José Paulo Kupfer, colunista do Estadão, analisa a inflação medida pela variação do IPCA em fevereiro.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccolunista
- clounista
- collunista
- colnuista
- coluinsta
- colunisat
- colunissta
- colunistta
- colunitsa
- colunnista
- colunsita
- coulnista
- oclunista
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of colunista - 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 "colunista", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).