contágio
/kõ.ˈta.ʒju/
The verdict
“contágio” has 11 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #24,272. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #24,272
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 2,140
- “C” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - transmissão ou propagação de doença por contato direto ou indireto
Corpus desk
Index PT-contagio · contágio · Portuguese
contágio · rank #24,272 · 11 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-MID #24,272
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,140
- PHOTO-FINISH converso
Nearest frequency peer: converso (+1 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 “contágio”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- ciclovia
ciclovia
75,743 corpus weight
- coibir
coibir
75,739 corpus weight
- conscientem…
conscientemente
75,731 corpus weight
- contágio
contágio
75,729 corpus weight
- converso
converso
75,728 corpus weight
- crush
crush
75,722 corpus weight
What this shows “contágio” 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 | contágio |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /kõ.ˈta.ʒju/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #24,272 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “contágio”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around contágio (IPA /kõ.ˈta.ʒju/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #24,272 among 2,140 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "transmissão ou propagação de doença por contato direto ou indireto".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for contágio, with forms such as "ccontágio", "cnotágio", and "conntágio". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "contato", "contigo", "contrário", and more, 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 contágio, spelled C-O-N-T-Á-G-I-O.
Definition
- 1transmissão ou propagação de doença por contato direto ou indireto
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccontágio
- cnotágio
- conntágio
- contgáio
- conttágio
- contággio
- contágoi
- contáigo
- conátgio
- cotnágio
- ocntágio
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of contágio - 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 "contágio", 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 (11 here; floor ≥5).