dental
/dẽ.ˈtaɫ/
The verdict
“dental” has 9 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #15,080. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #15,080
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,193
- “D” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - relativo aos dentes
Corpus desk
Index PT-dental · dental · Portuguese
dental · rank #15,080 · 9 variants · 9 confusables
- FREQ-MID #15,080
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,193
- PHOTO-FINISH descarregar
Nearest frequency peer: descarregar (+2 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 “dental”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- conveniência
conveniência
84,936 corpus weight
- coordenada
coordenada
84,932 corpus weight
- cozido
cozido
84,928 corpus weight
- dental
dental
84,921 corpus weight
- descarregar
descarregar
84,919 corpus weight
- divindade
divindade
84,911 corpus weight
What this shows “dental” 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 | dental |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /dẽ.ˈtaɫ/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #15,080 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “dental”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around dental (IPA /dẽ.ˈtaɫ/), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #15,080 among 1,193 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "relativo aos dentes".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for dental, with forms such as "ddental", "denatl", and "denntal". 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 9 confusable-pair relationships, "desta", "dente", "dentro", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Portuguese form is dental, spelled D-E-N-T-A-L.
Definition
- 1relativo aos dentes
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddental
- denatl
- denntal
- dentall
- dentla
- denttal
- detnal
- dnetal
- edntal
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of dental - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "dental", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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 (9 here; floor ≥5).