decade
The verdict
“decade” has 8 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #42,866. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #42,866
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,193
- “D” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - década
Corpus desk
Index PT-decade · decade · Portuguese
decade · rank #42,866 · 8 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-MID #42,866
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,193
- PHOTO-FINISH cânone
Nearest frequency peer: cânone (-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 “decade”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- cortante
cortante
57,147 corpus weight
- Cousins
Cousins
57,145 corpus weight
- created
created
57,144 corpus weight
- cânone
cânone
57,137 corpus weight
- decade
decade
57,135 corpus weight
- deserção
deserção
57,124 corpus weight
What this shows “decade” 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 | decade |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #42,866 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “decade”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around decade, anoun. Corpus frequency is #42,866 among 1,193 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "década".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for decade, with forms such as "dceade", "ddecade", and "deacde". 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, "desde", "decidi", "decote", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct Portuguese form is decade, spelled D-E-C-A-D-E.
Definition
- 1década
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how decade appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The 1960s was a complicated decade.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- dceade
- ddecade
- deacde
- decadde
- decaed
- deccade
- decdae
- edcade
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of decade - 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 "decade", 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).