crisis
The verdict
“crisis” has 9 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #22,590. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #22,590
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 2,140
- “C” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - crise
Corpus desk
Index PT-crisis · crisis · Portuguese
crisis · rank #22,590 · 9 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #22,590
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,140
- PHOTO-FINISH contemporanei…
Nearest frequency peer: contemporaneidade (-5 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 “crisis”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- compressor
compressor
77,422 corpus weight
- Computer
Computer
77,421 corpus weight
- contemporan…
contemporaneidade
77,416 corpus weight
- crisis
crisis
77,411 corpus weight
- danado
danado
77,403 corpus weight
- decote
decote
77,401 corpus weight
What this shows “crisis” 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 | crisis |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #22,590 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “crisis”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around crisis, anoun. Corpus frequency is #22,590 among 2,140 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "crise".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for crisis, with forms such as "ccrisis", "cirsis", and "criiss". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "cross", "crista", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct Portuguese form is crisis, spelled C-R-I-S-I-S.
Definition
- 1crise
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how crisis appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La crisis se desencadenó cuando un senador estadounidense, Leo Ryan, decidió comprobar si eran ciertas las denuncias de malos tratos en la comunidad.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccrisis
- cirsis
- criiss
- crisiss
- crissi
- crissis
- crrisis
- crsiis
- rcisis
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of crisis - 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 "crisis", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).