congelar
/kõ.ʒɨ.ˈlaɾ/
The verdict
“congelar” has 12 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #20,542. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #20,542
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 2,140
- “C” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - mudar do estado líquido para o sólido pela perda de calor
Corpus desk
Index PT-congelar · congelar · Portuguese
congelar · rank #20,542 · 12 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #20,542
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,140
- PHOTO-FINISH constelação
Nearest frequency peer: constelação (+3 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 “congelar”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- comoção
comoção
79,466 corpus weight
- comunicador
comunicador
79,464 corpus weight
- concessioná…
concessionária
79,463 corpus weight
- congelar
congelar
79,459 corpus weight
- constelação
constelação
79,456 corpus weight
- create
create
79,452 corpus weight
What this shows “congelar” 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 | congelar |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /kõ.ʒɨ.ˈlaɾ/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #20,542 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “congelar”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around congelar (IPA /kõ.ʒɨ.ˈlaɾ/), averb. Corpus frequency is #20,542 among 2,140 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 6 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for congelar, with forms such as "ccongelar", "cnogelar", and "cognelar". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "consolar", "cancelar", "condenar", and more, 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 any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Portuguese form is congelar, spelled C-O-N-G-E-L-A-R.
Definition
- 1mudar do estado líquido para o sólido pela perda de calor
- 2tornar-se duro por perda de calor
- 3ficar obstruído por formação de gelo
- 4tornar frio; esfriar
- 5fixar preços e salários por determinado tempo
- 6impedir a movimentação de bem, capital, dinheiro
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how congelar appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
A água congela a zero graus centígrados.
A carne congelou em poucas horas no freezer.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccongelar
- cnogelar
- cognelar
- coneglar
- congealr
- congelarr
- congellar
- congelra
- conggelar
- conglear
- conngelar
- ocngelar
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of congelar - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 "congelar", 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).