descascar
/dɨʃ.kɐʃ.ˈkaɾ/
The verdict
“descascar” has 14 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #33,360. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #33,360
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,193
- “D” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - tirar o invólucro exterior de plantas, frutas, ovos, tubérculos, etc.
Corpus desk
Index PT-descascar · descascar · Portuguese
descascar · rank #33,360 · 14 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #33,360
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,193
- PHOTO-FINISH delineado
Nearest frequency peer: delineado (-5 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 “descascar”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- condizente
condizente
66,660 corpus weight
- contaminar
contaminar
66,658 corpus weight
- convenientes
convenientes
66,655 corpus weight
- cortador
cortador
66,653 corpus weight
- delineado
delineado
66,646 corpus weight
- descascar
descascar
66,641 corpus weight
What this shows “descascar” 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 | descascar |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /dɨʃ.kɐʃ.ˈkaɾ/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #33,360 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “descascar”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around descascar (IPA /dɨʃ.kɐʃ.ˈkaɾ/), averb. Corpus frequency is #33,360 among 1,193 “D” headwords. Wiktionary lists 6 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for descascar, with forms such as "ddescascar", "decsascar", and "desacscar". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "destacar", "desgastar", "descansar", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 descascar, spelled D-E-S-C-A-S-C-A-R.
Definition
- 1tirar o invólucro exterior de plantas, frutas, ovos, tubérculos, etc.
- 2bater; sovar
- 3repreender severamente
- 4soltar a casca
- 5queda do casco de besta
- 6perder pedaços de pele morta depois de uma queimadura
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddescascar
- decsascar
- desacscar
- descacsar
- descasacr
- descascarr
- descasccar
- descascra
- descasscar
- desccascar
- descsacar
- desscascar
- dsecascar
- edscascar
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of descascar - 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 "descascar", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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 (14 here; floor ≥5).