delator
The verdict
“delator” has 10 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #19,959. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #19,959
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,193
- “D” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - aquele que delata, ou denuncia um ato, um crime
Corpus desk
Index PT-delator · delator · Portuguese
delator · rank #19,959 · 10 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,959
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,193
- PHOTO-FINISH defensivo
Nearest frequency peer: defensivo (-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 “delator”
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 “delator” 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 | delator |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #19,959 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “delator”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around delator, anoun. Corpus frequency is #19,959 among 1,193 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "aquele que delata, ou denuncia um ato, um crime".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for delator, with forms such as "ddelator", "dealtor", and "delaotr". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "delito", "deletar", "desatar", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Portuguese form is delator, spelled D-E-L-A-T-O-R.
Definition
- 1aquele que delata, ou denuncia um ato, um crime
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how delator appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Da cabeça raspada do publicitário Marcos Valério, acusado pelo delator de principal operador do indigitado método, brotaram cabelos encanecidos, mas nunca pelas preocupações com a vida, pois ela segue mansa como dantes: este jornal revelou, domingo, que ele se tornou um próspero fazendeiro em sua Minas natal.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddelator
- dealtor
- delaotr
- delatorr
- delatro
- delattor
- dellator
- deltaor
- dleator
- edlator
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of delator - 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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).