company
/ˈkʌmp(ə)ni/
The verdict
“company” has 11 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #10,495. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #10,495
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 3,948
- “C” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - companhia; ato ou fato de se ter companheiros
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 | company |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈkʌmp(ə)ni/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #10,495 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “company” sits in Portuguese frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around company (IPA /ˈkʌmp(ə)ni/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #10,495 among 3,948 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for company, with forms such as "ccompany", "cmopany", and "comapny". 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, "compare", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Portuguese form is company, spelled C-O-M-P-A-N-Y.
Definition
- 1companhia; ato ou fato de se ter companheiros
- 2grupo de pessoas
- 3companhia; unidade militar
- 4sociedade empresarial; empresa
Synonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccompany
- cmopany
- comapny
- commpany
- companny
- companyy
- compayn
- compnay
- comppany
- copmany
- ocmpany
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of company - 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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Using “company”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is C-O-M-P-A-N-Y - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ˈkʌmp(ə)ni/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “compare” - see the side-by-side comparison. company vs compare
- Browse more Portuguese words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Portuguese words
Same frequency band
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.