compulsório
The verdict
“compulsório” has 16 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #37,712. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #37,712
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 3,948
- “C” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - obrigatório
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | compulsório |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #37,712 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “compulsório” sits in Portuguese frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around compulsório, anadjective. Corpus frequency is #37,712 among 3,948 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "obrigatório".
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for compulsório, with forms such as "ccompulsório", "cmopulsório", and "commpulsório". 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. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Portuguese form is compulsório, spelled C-O-M-P-U-L-S-Ó-R-I-O.
Definition
- 1obrigatório
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccompulsório,cmopulsório,commpulsório,complusório,comppulsório,compullsório,compulsróio,compulssório,compulsóiro,compulsóroi,compulsórrio,compulósrio,compuslório,comuplsório,copmulsório,ocmpulsório
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of compulsório - 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 “compulsório”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is C-O-M-P-U-L-S-Ó-R-I-O - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Browse more Portuguese words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Portuguese words
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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.