cortante
/kuɾ.ˈtɐ̃.tɨ/
The verdict
“cortante” has 12 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #42,854. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #42,854
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 2,140
- “C” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - que corta
Corpus desk
Index PT-cortante · cortante · Portuguese
cortante · rank #42,854 · 12 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #42,854
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,140
- PHOTO-FINISH Cousins
Nearest frequency peer: Cousins (+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 “cortante”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- condutivida…
condutividade
57,153 corpus weight
- contagiar
contagiar
57,152 corpus weight
- contagioso
contagioso
57,151 corpus weight
- cortante
cortante
57,147 corpus weight
- Cousins
Cousins
57,145 corpus weight
- created
created
57,144 corpus weight
What this shows “cortante” 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 | cortante |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /kuɾ.ˈtɐ̃.tɨ/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #42,854 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “cortante”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around cortante (IPA /kuɾ.ˈtɐ̃.tɨ/), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #42,854 among 2,140 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for cortante, with forms such as "ccortante", "coratnte", and "corrtante". 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, "corrente", "contente", "constante", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
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 cortante, spelled C-O-R-T-A-N-T-E.
Definition
- 1que corta
- 2que fere, que magoa
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how cortante appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Um vento cortante.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccortante
- coratnte
- corrtante
- cortanet
- cortannte
- cortantte
- cortatne
- cortnate
- corttante
- cotrante
- crotante
- ocrtante
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cortante - 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 "cortante", 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 (12 here; floor ≥5).