descendência
/dɨʃ.sẽ.ˈdẽ.sjɐ/
The verdict
“descendência” has 18 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #14,818. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #14,818
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,193
- “D” headwords
- 18
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - conjunto de descendentes (filhos, netos, etc) de uma pessoa
Corpus desk
Index PT-descendencia · descendência · Portuguese
descendência · rank #14,818 · 18 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #14,818
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 18 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,193
- PHOTO-FINISH diagrama
Nearest frequency peer: diagrama (+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 “descendência”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- conjuntamen…
conjuntamente
85,193 corpus weight
- contornar
contornar
85,192 corpus weight
- descendência
descendência
85,183 corpus weight
- diagrama
diagrama
85,178 corpus weight
- drenagem
drenagem
85,174 corpus weight
- Elis
Elis
85,171 corpus weight
What this shows “descendência” 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 | descendência |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /dɨʃ.sẽ.ˈdẽ.sjɐ/ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #14,818 |
| Misspellings tracked | 18 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “descendência”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 18 spelling variants around descendência (IPA /dɨʃ.sẽ.ˈdẽ.sjɐ/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #14,818 among 1,193 “D” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 18 likely wrong-spelling variants for descendência, with forms such as "ddescendência", "decsendência", and "desccendência". 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, "dependência", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored 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 descendência, spelled D-E-S-C-E-N-D-Ê-N-C-I-A.
Definition
- 1conjunto de descendentes (filhos, netos, etc) de uma pessoa
- 2ação de descender
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddescendência
- decsendência
- desccendência
- descednência
- descenddência
- descendnêcia
- descendêcnia
- descendêncai
- descendênccia
- descendênica
- descendênncia
- descenndência
- descenêdncia
- descnedência
- desecndência
- desscendência
- dsecendência
- edscendência
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of descendência - 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 "descendência", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (18 here; floor ≥5).