controvérsia
/kõ.tɾu.ˈvɛɾ.sjɐ/
The verdict
“controvérsia” has 18 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #7,380. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #7,380
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 2,140
- “C” headwords
- 18
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - polémica, debate acerca de uma questão, opinião, proposta, no qual há divergência marcada.
Corpus desk
Index PT-controversia · controvérsia · Portuguese
controvérsia · rank #7,380 · 18 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-COMMON #7,380
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 18 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,140
- PHOTO-FINISH condução
Nearest frequency peer: condução (-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 “controvérsia”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- beto
beto
92,633 corpus weight
- condução
condução
92,622 corpus weight
- controvérsia
controvérsia
92,621 corpus weight
- delegação
delegação
92,616 corpus weight
- dentista
dentista
92,615 corpus weight
- desvio
desvio
92,613 corpus weight
What this shows “controvérsia” 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 | controvérsia |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /kõ.tɾu.ˈvɛɾ.sjɐ/ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #7,380 |
| Misspellings tracked | 18 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “controvérsia”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 18 spelling variants around controvérsia (IPA /kõ.tɾu.ˈvɛɾ.sjɐ/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #7,380 among 2,140 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 18 likely wrong-spelling variants for controvérsia, with forms such as "ccontrovérsia", "cnotrovérsia", and "conntrovérsia". 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, "controverso", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Portuguese form is controvérsia, spelled C-O-N-T-R-O-V-É-R-S-I-A.
Definition
- 1polémica, debate acerca de uma questão, opinião, proposta, no qual há divergência marcada.
- 2contestação.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccontrovérsia
- cnotrovérsia
- conntrovérsia
- conrtovérsia
- contorvérsia
- controvrésia
- controvvérsia
- controvérisa
- controvérrsia
- controvérsai
- controvérssia
- controvésria
- controévrsia
- contrrovérsia
- contrvoérsia
- conttrovérsia
- cotnrovérsia
- ocntrovérsia
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of controvérsia - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 "controvérsia", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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 (18 here; floor ≥5).