descontraído
/dɨʃ.kõ.tɾɐ.ˈi.du/
The verdict
“descontraído” has 18 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #32,552. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #32,552
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,193
- “D” headwords
- 18
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - relaxado, sem formalidades
Corpus desk
Index PT-descontraido · descontraído · Portuguese
descontraído · rank #32,552 · 18 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #32,552
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 18 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,193
- PHOTO-FINISH desapontamento
Nearest frequency peer: desapontamento (-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 “descontraído”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- desanimado
desanimado
67,451 corpus weight
- desapontame…
desapontamento
67,450 corpus weight
- descontraído
descontraído
67,449 corpus weight
- descrédito
descrédito
67,448 corpus weight
- desire
desire
67,445 corpus weight
- desonesto
desonesto
67,444 corpus weight
What this shows “descontraído” 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 | descontraído |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /dɨʃ.kõ.tɾɐ.ˈi.du/ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #32,552 |
| Misspellings tracked | 18 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “descontraído”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 18 spelling variants around descontraído (IPA /dɨʃ.kõ.tɾɐ.ˈi.du/), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #32,552 among 1,193 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "relaxado, sem formalidades".
Our generated misspelling index lists 18 likely wrong-spelling variants for descontraído, with forms such as "ddescontraído", "decsontraído", and "desccontraído". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "descontrair", "descontado", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 descontraído, spelled D-E-S-C-O-N-T-R-A-Í-D-O.
Definition
- 1relaxado, sem formalidades
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how descontraído appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Em um lado um pouco mais descontraído, eis que surgem seis modelos da Melissa, vendidos na faixa de £ 50, cerca de R$ 180.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddescontraído
- decsontraído
- desccontraído
- descnotraído
- desconntraído
- desconrtaído
- descontarído
- descontradío
- descontraíddo
- descontraíod
- descontrraído
- descontríado
- desconttraído
- descotnraído
- desocntraído
- desscontraído
- dsecontraído
- edscontraído
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of descontraído - 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
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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).