demente
/dɨ.ˈmẽ.tɨ/
The verdict
“demente” has 10 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #28,930. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #28,930
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,193
- “D” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - que apresenta demência
Corpus desk
Index PT-demente · demente · Portuguese
demente · rank #28,930 · 10 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-MID #28,930
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,193
- PHOTO-FINISH dardo
Nearest frequency peer: dardo (-4 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 “demente”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- culatra
culatra
71,079 corpus weight
- dardo
dardo
71,075 corpus weight
- demente
demente
71,071 corpus weight
- descontrair
descontrair
71,066 corpus weight
- desuso
desuso
71,063 corpus weight
- doing
doing
71,056 corpus weight
What this shows “demente” 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 | demente |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /dɨ.ˈmẽ.tɨ/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #28,930 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “demente”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around demente (IPA /dɨ.ˈmẽ.tɨ/), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #28,930 among 1,193 “D” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for demente, with forms such as "ddemente", "deemnte", and "demenet". 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, "dente", "doente", "docente", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Portuguese form is demente, spelled D-E-M-E-N-T-E.
Definition
- 1que apresenta demência
- 2louco
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddemente
- deemnte
- demenet
- demennte
- dementte
- demetne
- demmente
- demnete
- dmeente
- edmente
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of demente - 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 "demente", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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).