dead
The verdict
“dead” has 5 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #6,859. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #6,859
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,193
- “D” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - morto
Corpus desk
Index PT-dead · dead · Portuguese
dead · rank #6,859 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #6,859
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,193
- PHOTO-FINISH critério
Nearest frequency peer: critério (-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 “dead”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- bondade
bondade
93,157 corpus weight
- criativo
criativo
93,145 corpus weight
- critério
critério
93,144 corpus weight
- dead
dead
93,142 corpus weight
- ego
ego
93,129 corpus weight
- Elena
Elena
93,128 corpus weight
What this shows “dead” 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 | dead |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #6,859 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “dead”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around dead, anadjective. Corpus frequency is #6,859 among 1,193 “D” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for dead, with forms such as "daed", "ddead", and "deadd". 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. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "dia", "dez", "der", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Portuguese form is dead, spelled D-E-A-D.
Definition
- 1morto
- 2arriado
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how dead appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dead battery.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- daed
- ddead
- deadd
- deda
- edad
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of dead - 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 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).