defensivo
/dɨ.fẽ.ˈsi.vu/
The verdict
“defensivo” has 13 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #19,958. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #19,958
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,193
- “D” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - que serve para defesa
Corpus desk
Index PT-defensivo · defensivo · Portuguese
defensivo · rank #19,958 · 13 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,958
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,193
- PHOTO-FINISH delator
Nearest frequency peer: delator (+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 “defensivo”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- Daniele
Daniele
80,046 corpus weight
- defensivo
defensivo
80,043 corpus weight
- delator
delator
80,042 corpus weight
- deliberação
deliberação
80,041 corpus weight
- delicadeza
delicadeza
80,040 corpus weight
- disseminar
disseminar
80,034 corpus weight
What this shows “defensivo” está entre estes pares FrequencyWords; a profundidade de typo mede-se à parte no gráfico de distância de edição.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | defensivo |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /dɨ.fẽ.ˈsi.vu/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #19,958 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “defensivo”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around defensivo (IPA /dɨ.fẽ.ˈsi.vu/), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #19,958 among 1,193 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "que serve para defesa".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for defensivo, with forms such as "ddefensivo", "deefnsivo", and "defenisvo". 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 confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file 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 defensivo, spelled D-E-F-E-N-S-I-V-O.
Definition
- 1que serve para defesa
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddefensivo
- deefnsivo
- defenisvo
- defennsivo
- defensiov
- defensivvo
- defenssivo
- defensvio
- defesnivo
- deffensivo
- defnesivo
- dfeensivo
- edfensivo
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of defensivo - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).