contingente
/kõ.tĩ.ˈʒẽ.tɨ/
The verdict
“contingente” has 17 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #12,851. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #12,851
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 2,140
- “C” headwords
- 17
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - possível, mas não certo; incidental; casual
Corpus desk
Index PT-contingente · contingente · Portuguese
contingente · rank #12,851 · 17 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #12,851
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 17 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,140
- PHOTO-FINISH consultório
Nearest frequency peer: consultório (-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 “contingente”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- casual
casual
87,161 corpus weight
- consultório
consultório
87,152 corpus weight
- contingente
contingente
87,150 corpus weight
- decorar
decorar
87,141 corpus weight
- desculpar
desculpar
87,139 corpus weight
- desfecho
desfecho
87,137 corpus weight
What this shows “contingente” 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 | contingente |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /kõ.tĩ.ˈʒẽ.tɨ/ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #12,851 |
| Misspellings tracked | 17 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “contingente”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 17 spelling variants around contingente (IPA /kõ.tĩ.ˈʒẽ.tɨ/), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #12,851 among 2,140 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 17 likely wrong-spelling variants for contingente, with forms such as "ccontingente", "cnotingente", and "conitngente". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "convincente", "contundente", "continente", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file 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 contingente, spelled C-O-N-T-I-N-G-E-N-T-E.
Definition
- 1possível, mas não certo; incidental; casual
- 2dependente do que está indeterminado ou desconhecido
- 3dependente de algo que pode ou não acontecer
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccontingente
- cnotingente
- conitngente
- conntingente
- contignente
- continegnte
- contingenet
- contingennte
- contingentte
- contingetne
- continggente
- contingnete
- continngente
- contnigente
- conttingente
- cotningente
- ocntingente
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of contingente - 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 "contingente", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (17 here; floor ≥5).