contaminado

adj

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The verdict

“contaminado” has 16 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #18,546. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#18,546
frequency rank, Portuguese
2,140
“C” headwords
16
tracked misspellings
1
confusable pair

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - diz-se daquilo que sofreu contaminação

Corpus desk

Index PT-contaminado · contaminado · Portuguese

contaminado · rank #18,546 · 16 variants · 1 confusable

  • FREQ-MID #18,546
  • LEN-MEGA 11 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 16 variants
  • BOOK-MID 2,140
  • PHOTO-FINISH contramão

Nearest frequency peer: contramão (+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 “contaminado”

Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho

corpus weight

What this shows “contaminado” está entre estes pares FrequencyWords; a profundidade de typo mede-se à parte no gráfico de distância de edição.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

contaminado vs contaminar
82% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for contaminado
PropertyValue
Headwordcontaminado
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechAdjective
Letters11
Frequency rank#18,546
Misspellings tracked16
Confusable pairs1
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequência do íman ortográfico “contaminado”

Da esquerda para a direita: o pouco que carrega a fala diária, depois a cauda longa quase invisível.contaminadocai aqui:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

A escala é logarítmica (cada marca ≈ 10× mais rara). Na mesma faixa de raridade aparecem “contramão” (#18,548), “coordenado” (#18,549), “compatibilidade” (#18,539). Entre 2,140 lemas com “C”, “contaminado” fica em #18,546. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 16 spelling variants around contaminado, anadjective. Corpus frequency is #18,546 among 2,140 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "diz-se daquilo que sofreu contaminação".

Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for contaminado, with forms such as "ccontaminado", "cnotaminado", and "conatminado". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "contaminar", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Portuguese form is contaminado, spelled C-O-N-T-A-M-I-N-A-D-O.

Definition

  1. 1
    diz-se daquilo que sofreu contaminação

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how contaminado appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Ar contaminado vai da capital em direção ao interior.

This word in other languages

contaminated(English)contaminado(Español)contaminé(Français)verseucht(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ccontaminado
  • cnotaminado
  • conatminado
  • conntaminado
  • contaimnado
  • contamiando
  • contaminaddo
  • contaminaod
  • contamindao
  • contaminnado
  • contamminado
  • contamniado
  • contmainado
  • conttaminado
  • cotnaminado
  • ocntaminado

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of contaminado - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

ccontaminado1cnotaminado2conatminado2conntaminado1contaimnado2contamiando2contaminaddo1contaminaod2
Edit distance from "contaminado"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "contaminado"?
"contaminado" is spelled C-O-N-T-A-M-I-N-A-D-O.
What does "contaminado" mean?
As an adjective, "contaminado" means: diz-se daquilo que sofreu contaminação
What words are commonly confused with "contaminado"?
"contaminado" is commonly confused with "contaminar". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "contaminado" come from?
"contaminado" is a Portuguese word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "contaminado", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

ferroviário#18,596vegetariano#18,479linguístico#18,631patrimonial#18,406

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (16 here; floor ≥5).

remotamente16 variantsingrediente16 variantsagravamento16 variantsescravatura16 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list