competir
/kõ.pɨ.ˈtiɾ/
The verdict
“competir” has 12 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #7,124. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #7,124
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 2,140
- “C” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - ser comparado com os semelhantes em determinada modalidade de ação.
Corpus desk
Index PT-competir · competir · Portuguese
competir · rank #7,124 · 12 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,124
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,140
- PHOTO-FINISH colaborar
Nearest frequency peer: colaborar (-2 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 “competir”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- chip
chip
92,884 corpus weight
- cineasta
cineasta
92,882 corpus weight
- cinzas
cinzas
92,881 corpus weight
- colaborar
colaborar
92,879 corpus weight
- competir
competir
92,877 corpus weight
- conectar
conectar
92,873 corpus weight
What this shows “competir” 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 | competir |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /kõ.pɨ.ˈtiɾ/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #7,124 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “competir”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around competir (IPA /kõ.pɨ.ˈtiɾ/), averb. Corpus frequency is #7,124 among 2,140 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for competir, with forms such as "ccompetir", "cmopetir", and "comeptir". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "Computer", "completar", "cometer", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is competir, spelled C-O-M-P-E-T-I-R.
Definition
- 1ser comparado com os semelhantes em determinada modalidade de ação.
- 2participar de competição.
- 3lutar por uma vaga.
- 4fazer uma prova.
- 5ser de obrigação de.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccompetir
- cmopetir
- comeptir
- commpetir
- compeitr
- competirr
- competri
- compettir
- comppetir
- compteir
- copmetir
- ocmpetir
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of competir - 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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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "competir", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).