dengue
The verdict
“dengue” has 8 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #8,322. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #8,322
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,193
- “D” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - doença transmitida por mosquito; causa febre e dores no corpo
Corpus desk
Index PT-dengue · dengue · Portuguese
dengue · rank #8,322 · 8 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-COMMON #8,322
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,193
- PHOTO-FINISH delícia
Nearest frequency peer: delícia (-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 “dengue”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- custódia
custódia
91,684 corpus weight
- delícia
delícia
91,680 corpus weight
- dengue
dengue
91,679 corpus weight
- disparar
disparar
91,677 corpus weight
- dog
dog
91,675 corpus weight
- eficácia
eficácia
91,673 corpus weight
What this shows “dengue” 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 | dengue |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #8,322 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “dengue”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around dengue, anoun. Corpus frequency is #8,322 among 1,193 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "doença transmitida por mosquito; causa febre e dores no corpo".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for dengue, with forms such as "ddengue", "degnue", and "dengeu". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "dente", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Portuguese form is dengue, spelled D-E-N-G-U-E.
Definition
- 1doença transmitida por mosquito; causa febre e dores no corpo
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how dengue appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
A dengue clássica matou neste ano, no Estado de São Paulo, mais pessoas do que a dengue hemorrágica.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddengue
- degnue
- dengeu
- denggue
- denngue
- denuge
- dnegue
- edngue
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of dengue - 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
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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).