creme
/ˈkɾɛ.mɨ/
The verdict
“creme” has 7 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #6,046. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #6,046
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 2,140
- “C” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 13
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - amarelado como a nata do leite retardada
Corpus desk
Index PT-creme · creme · Portuguese
creme · rank #6,046 · 7 variants · 13 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #6,046
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 13 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,140
- PHOTO-FINISH cumprimento
Nearest frequency peer: cumprimento (+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 “creme”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- concluir
concluir
93,959 corpus weight
- creme
creme
93,955 corpus weight
- cumprimento
cumprimento
93,954 corpus weight
- câmbio
câmbio
93,953 corpus weight
- dali
dali
93,952 corpus weight
- destruído
destruído
93,950 corpus weight
What this shows “creme” 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 | creme |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ˈkɾɛ.mɨ/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #6,046 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 13 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “creme”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around creme (IPA /ˈkɾɛ.mɨ/), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #6,046 among 2,140 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "amarelado como a nata do leite retardada".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for creme, with forms such as "ccreme", "cerme", and "creem". 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 13 confusable-pair relationships, "crer", "crime", "cromo", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct Portuguese form is creme, spelled C-R-E-M-E.
Definition
- 1amarelado como a nata do leite retardada
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccreme
- cerme
- creem
- cremme
- crmee
- crreme
- rceme
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of creme - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 "creme", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).