comerciante
/ku.mɨɾ.ˈsjɐ̃.tɨ/
The verdict
“comerciante” has 16 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #10,493. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #10,493
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 2,140
- “C” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - aquele que trabalha em assuntos relacionados ao comércio
Corpus desk
Index PT-comerciante · comerciante · Portuguese
comerciante · rank #10,493 · 16 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #10,493
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 16 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,140
- PHOTO-FINISH colunista
Nearest frequency peer: colunista (-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 “comerciante”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- 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
- consultar
consultar
89,500 corpus weight
What this shows “comerciante” 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 | comerciante |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ku.mɨɾ.ˈsjɐ̃.tɨ/ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #10,493 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “comerciante”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around comerciante (IPA /ku.mɨɾ.ˈsjɐ̃.tɨ/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #10,493 among 2,140 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for comerciante, with forms such as "ccomerciante", "cmoerciante", and "coemrciante". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "comediante", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Portuguese form is comerciante, spelled C-O-M-E-R-C-I-A-N-T-E.
Definition
- 1aquele que trabalha em assuntos relacionados ao comércio
- 2vendedor
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccomerciante
- cmoerciante
- coemrciante
- comecriante
- comercainte
- comercciante
- comercianet
- comerciannte
- comerciantte
- comerciatne
- comercinate
- comericante
- comerrciante
- commerciante
- comreciante
- ocmerciante
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of comerciante - 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 "comerciante", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (16 here; floor ≥5).