decretar
The verdict
“decretar” has 12 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #24,933. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #24,933
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,193
- “D” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - ordenar por decreto
Corpus desk
Index PT-decretar · decretar · Portuguese
decretar · rank #24,933 · 12 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #24,933
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,193
- PHOTO-FINISH darkness
Nearest frequency peer: darkness (-3 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 “decretar”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- 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
- descontente
descontente
75,062 corpus weight
What this shows “decretar” 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 | decretar |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #24,933 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “decretar”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around decretar, averb. Corpus frequency is #24,933 among 1,193 “D” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for decretar, with forms such as "dceretar", "ddecretar", and "deccretar". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "decreto", "deletar", "derrotar", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Portuguese form is decretar, spelled D-E-C-R-E-T-A-R.
Definition
- 1ordenar por decreto
- 2determinar; mandar solenemente
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how decretar appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
decretar anistia
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- dceretar
- ddecretar
- deccretar
- decertar
- decreatr
- decretarr
- decretra
- decrettar
- decrretar
- decrtear
- dercetar
- edcretar
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of decretar - 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 "decretar", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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 (12 here; floor ≥5).