darkness
/ˈdɑːknəs/
The verdict
“darkness” has 11 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #24,930. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #24,930
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,193
- “D” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - escuridão; trevas
Corpus desk
Index PT-darkness · darkness · Portuguese
darkness · rank #24,930 · 11 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #24,930
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,193
- PHOTO-FINISH curral
Nearest frequency peer: curral (-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 “darkness”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- cotação
cotação
75,077 corpus weight
- curativo
curativo
75,074 corpus weight
- curral
curral
75,073 corpus weight
- darkness
darkness
75,071 corpus weight
- decretar
decretar
75,068 corpus weight
- deliberativo
deliberativo
75,065 corpus weight
What this shows “darkness” está entre estes pares FrequencyWords; a profundidade de typo mede-se à parte no gráfico de distância de edição.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | darkness |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈdɑːknəs/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #24,930 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “darkness”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around darkness (IPA /ˈdɑːknəs/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #24,930 among 1,193 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "escuridão; trevas".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for darkness, with forms such as "adrkness", "dakrness", and "darkenss". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored 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 darkness, spelled D-A-R-K-N-E-S-S.
Definition
- 1escuridão; trevas
Antonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- adrkness
- dakrness
- darkenss
- darkkness
- darknes
- darknness
- darknses
- darnkess
- darrkness
- ddarkness
- drakness
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of darkness - 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
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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 (11 here; floor ≥5).