comando

Name: comando, Portuguese Word Data
Creator: Wiktionary
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

noun

By PlainSpell · According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA) · analyzed September 3, 2026

The verdict

“comando” has 10 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #1,425. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#1,425
frequency rank, Portuguese: 2,140
“C” headwords: 10
tracked misspellings: 3
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - ação de comandar, governar

Corpus desk

Index PT-comando · comando · Portuguese

comando · rank #1,425 · 10 variants · 3 confusables

FREQ-COMMON #1,425
LEN-LONG 7 letters
VOW-3 3 vowels
CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
VAR-MID 10 variants
BOOK-MID 2,140
PHOTO-FINISH cheio

Nearest frequency peer: cheio (-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.

auto

98,580
Bahia

98,579
cheio

98,577
comando

98,576
deixando

98,574
destaque

98,573

What this shows “comando” 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).

comando vs cuando

71% similar

comando vs comenda

71% similar

comando vs comandar

75% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for comando
Property	Value
Headword	comando
Language	Portuguese
Part of speech	Noun
Letters	7
Frequency rank	#1,425
Misspellings tracked	10
Confusable pairs	3
Source	Wiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequência do íman ortográfico “comando”

A frequência vai do punhado de palavras do dia a dia (esquerda) à cauda longa quase nunca usada (direita).comandocai aqui:

#1,425

#1#100#1K#10K#100K

← used constantlyrarely used →

Os ticks avançam em logaritmo; cada um é da ordem de dez vezes mais raro. Na mesma faixa de raridade aparecem “cheio” (#1,424), “deixando” (#1,427), “Bahia” (#1,422). Entre 2,140 lemas com “C”, “comando” fica em #1,425. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 10 spelling variants around comando, anoun. Corpus frequency is #1,425 among 2,140 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 6 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for comando, with forms such as "ccomando", "cmoando", and "coamndo". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "cuando", "comenda", "comandar", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

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 comando, spelled C-O-M-A-N-D-O.

Definition

1
ação de comandar, governar
2
autoridade
3
o topo de hierarquia em qualquer conjunto de tropas
4
tropas de elite existentes em quase todos os países; cada um dos elementos destas tropas
5
ação ou expressão que é interpretada como ordem
6
dispositivo que, à distância, faz funcionar alguns aparelhos; o mesmo que telecomando

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how comando appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

Trabalhavam sob o comando de um capataz.
O comando pertencia ao chefe de família.

This word in other languages

Kommando(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

ccomando
cmoando
coamndo
comadno
comanddo
comanndo
comanod
commando
comnado
ocmando

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of comando - 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.

Edit distance from "comando"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "comando"?

"comando" is spelled C-O-M-A-N-D-O.

What does "comando" mean?

As a noun, "comando" means: ação de comandar, governar

What words are commonly confused with "comando"?

"comando" is commonly confused with "cuando", "comenda", "comandar". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.

What language does "comando" come from?

"comando" is a Portuguese word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.

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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "comando", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).

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