descobrimento
/dɨʃ.ku.bɾi.ˈmẽ.tu/
The verdict
“descobrimento” has 20 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #25,970. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #25,970
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 2,399
- “D” headwords
- 20
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - ato ou efeito de descobrir
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 | descobrimento |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /dɨʃ.ku.bɾi.ˈmẽ.tu/ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #25,970 |
| Misspellings tracked | 20 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “descobrimento” sits in Portuguese frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 20 spelling variants around descobrimento (IPA /dɨʃ.ku.bɾi.ˈmẽ.tu/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #25,970 among 2,399 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "ato ou efeito de descobrir".
Our generated misspelling index lists 20 likely wrong-spelling variants for descobrimento, with forms such as "ddescobrimento", "decsobrimento", and "descborimento". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "desdobramento", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 descobrimento, spelled D-E-S-C-O-B-R-I-M-E-N-T-O.
Definition
- 1ato ou efeito de descobrir
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddescobrimento
- decsobrimento
- descborimento
- desccobrimento
- descobbrimento
- descobirmento
- descobriemnto
- descobrimennto
- descobrimenot
- descobrimentto
- descobrimetno
- descobrimmento
- descobrimneto
- descobrmiento
- descobrrimento
- descorbimento
- desocbrimento
- desscobrimento
- dsecobrimento
- edscobrimento
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of descobrimento - 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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Using “descobrimento”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is D-E-S-C-O-B-R-I-M-E-N-T-O - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /dɨʃ.ku.bɾi.ˈmẽ.tu/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “desdobramento” - see the side-by-side comparison. descobrimento vs desdobramento
- Browse more Portuguese words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Portuguese words
Same frequency band
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.