cubano
/ku.ˈbã.nu/
The verdict
“cubano” has 8 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #12,209. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #12,209
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 2,140
- “C” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - natural de Cuba.
Corpus desk
Index PT-cubano · cubano · Portuguese
cubano · rank #12,209 · 8 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-MID #12,209
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,140
- PHOTO-FINISH coreografia
Nearest frequency peer: coreografia (-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 “cubano”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- contradição
contradição
87,795 corpus weight
- copas
copas
87,794 corpus weight
- coreografia
coreografia
87,793 corpus weight
- cubano
cubano
87,792 corpus weight
- cubo
cubo
87,791 corpus weight
- cândido
cândido
87,789 corpus weight
What this shows “cubano” 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 | cubano |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ku.ˈbã.nu/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #12,209 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “cubano”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around cubano (IPA /ku.ˈbã.nu/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #12,209 among 2,140 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "natural de Cuba.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for cubano, with forms such as "cbuano", "ccubano", and "cuabno". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "cubo", "cúbico", "cuba", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Portuguese form is cubano, spelled C-U-B-A-N-O.
Definition
- 1natural de Cuba.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cbuano
- ccubano
- cuabno
- cubanno
- cubaon
- cubbano
- cubnao
- ucbano
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cubano - 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 "cubano", 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 (8 here; floor ≥5).