despojos
The verdict
“despojos” has 12 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #46,792. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #46,792
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 2,399
- “D” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - restos
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 | despojos |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #46,792 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “despojos” sits in Portuguese frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around despojos, anoun. Corpus frequency is #46,792 among 2,399 “D” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for despojos, with forms such as "ddespojos", "depsojos", and "desopjos". 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, "despejo", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology 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 despojos, spelled D-E-S-P-O-J-O-S.
Definition
- 1restos
- 2conjunto de bens deteriorados por resultado de ação violenta:
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddespojos
- depsojos
- desopjos
- despjoos
- despojjos
- despojoss
- despojso
- despoojs
- desppojos
- desspojos
- dsepojos
- edspojos
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of despojos - 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 “despojos”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is D-E-S-P-O-J-O-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Don't mix it up with “despejo” - see the side-by-side comparison. despojos vs despejo
- 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.