contest
The verdict
“contest” has 11 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #27,803. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #27,803
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 2,140
- “C” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - competição, concurso
Corpus desk
Index PT-contest · contest · Portuguese
contest · rank #27,803 · 11 variants · 9 confusables
- FREQ-MID #27,803
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,140
- PHOTO-FINISH conspirar
Nearest frequency peer: conspirar (-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 “contest”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- clair
clair
72,214 corpus weight
- coerção
coerção
72,211 corpus weight
- conspirar
conspirar
72,200 corpus weight
- contest
contest
72,198 corpus weight
- cos
cos
72,191 corpus weight
- credível
credível
72,188 corpus weight
What this shows “contest” 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 | contest |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #27,803 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “contest”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around contest, anoun. Corpus frequency is #27,803 among 2,140 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "competição, concurso".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for contest, with forms such as "ccontest", "cnotest", and "conetst". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 9 confusable-pair relationships, "convés", "cortês", "contexto", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, 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 contest, spelled C-O-N-T-E-S-T.
Definition
- 1competição, concurso
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how contest appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Any attempt by an entrant to influence the result or subvert the contest will lead to immediate disqualification.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccontest
- cnotest
- conetst
- conntest
- contesst
- contestt
- contets
- contset
- conttest
- cotnest
- ocntest
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of contest - 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 "contest", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).