consternação
The verdict
“consternação” has 17 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #43,349. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #43,349
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 2,140
- “C” headwords
- 17
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - ato ou efeito de consternar(-se)
Corpus desk
Index PT-consternacao · consternação · Portuguese
consternação · rank #43,349 · 17 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #43,349
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 17 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,140
- PHOTO-FINISH confessor
Nearest frequency peer: confessor (-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 “consternação”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- civismo
civismo
56,663 corpus weight
- confessor
confessor
56,654 corpus weight
- consternação
consternação
56,652 corpus weight
- consumar
consumar
56,650 corpus weight
- crawl
crawl
56,643 corpus weight
- declaradame…
declaradamente
56,634 corpus weight
What this shows “consternação” 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 | consternação |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #43,349 |
| Misspellings tracked | 17 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “consternação”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 17 spelling variants around consternação, anoun. Corpus frequency is #43,349 among 2,140 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 17 likely wrong-spelling variants for consternação, with forms such as "cconsternação", "cnosternação", and "connsternação". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "conservação", "constelação", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 consternação, spelled C-O-N-S-T-E-R-N-A-Ç-Ã-O.
Definition
- 1ato ou efeito de consternar(-se)
- 2tristeza imensa e profunda; dor
- 3ausência de vigor; sem ânimo
- 4abatimento
- 5ação de se comover ou de se perturbar; choque
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how consternação appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
No velório a consternação dos parentes estava explícita.
Ele caiu numa consternação depois do divórcio.
Synonyms
Antonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cconsternação
- cnosternação
- connsternação
- consetrnação
- conssternação
- constenração
- consteranção
- consternaãço
- consternaçoã
- consternnação
- consternçaão
- consterrnação
- constrenação
- constternação
- contsernação
- cosnternação
- ocnsternação
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of consternação - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (17 here; floor ≥5).