criminal
The verdict
“criminal” has 12 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #3,890. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #3,890
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 2,140
- “C” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - jurisdição que trata dos processos criminais
Corpus desk
Index PT-criminal · criminal · Portuguese
criminal · rank #3,890 · 12 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #3,890
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,140
- PHOTO-FINISH comemorar
Nearest frequency peer: comemorar (-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 “criminal”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- cobre
cobre
96,113 corpus weight
- comemorar
comemorar
96,112 corpus weight
- criminal
criminal
96,111 corpus weight
- democrático
democrático
96,110 corpus weight
- desejar
desejar
96,109 corpus weight
- diabo
diabo
96,107 corpus weight
What this shows “criminal” está entre estes pares FrequencyWords; a profundidade de typo mede-se à parte no gráfico de distância de edição.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | criminal |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #3,890 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “criminal”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around criminal, anoun. Corpus frequency is #3,890 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 criminal, with forms such as "ccriminal", "cirminal", and "criimnal". 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. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented 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 criminal, spelled C-R-I-M-I-N-A-L.
Definition
- 1jurisdição que trata dos processos criminais
- 2processo de um crime; tribunal de crimes
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how criminal appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Processo que envolve o cível e o criminal.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccriminal
- cirminal
- criimnal
- crimianl
- criminall
- criminla
- criminnal
- crimminal
- crimnial
- crmiinal
- crriminal
- rciminal
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of criminal - 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 "criminal", 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).