desportiva

noun

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The verdict

“desportiva” has 15 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #11,248. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#11,248
frequency rank, Portuguese
1,193
“D” headwords
15
tracked misspellings
2
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - alegria, contentamento, felicidade

Corpus desk

Index PT-desportiva · desportiva · Portuguese

desportiva · rank #11,248 · 15 variants · 2 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #11,248
  • LEN-MEGA 10 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 15 variants
  • BOOK-MID 1,193
  • PHOTO-FINISH desconfiança

Nearest frequency peer: desconfiança (-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 “desportiva”

Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho

corpus weight

What this shows “desportiva” está entre estes pares FrequencyWords; a profundidade de typo mede-se à parte no gráfico de distância de edição.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

desportiva vs desportivo
90% similar
desportiva vs desportista
82% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for desportiva
PropertyValue
Headworddesportiva
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
Letters10
Frequency rank#11,248
Misspellings tracked15
Confusable pairs2
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequência do íman ortográfico “desportiva”

Esta escala corre do núcleo do português quotidiano (esquerda) até o rastro de formas raras (direita).desportivacai aqui:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

O eixo é logarítmico: cada tick marca cerca de dez vezes menos frequência. Na mesma faixa de raridade aparecem “desconfiança” (#11,247), “Damasco” (#11,246), “detalhado” (#11,250). Entre 1,193 lemas com “D”, “desportiva” fica em #11,248. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 15 spelling variants around desportiva, anoun. Corpus frequency is #11,248 among 1,193 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "alegria, contentamento, felicidade".

Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for desportiva, with forms such as "ddesportiva", "depsortiva", and "desoprtiva". 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, "desportivo", "desportista", 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 desportiva, spelled D-E-S-P-O-R-T-I-V-A.

Definition

  1. 1
    alegria, contentamento, felicidade

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how desportiva appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Levar a vida na desportiva.

Synonyms

esportiva

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ddesportiva
  • depsortiva
  • desoprtiva
  • desporitva
  • desporrtiva
  • desportiav
  • desportivva
  • desporttiva
  • desportvia
  • despotriva
  • despportiva
  • desprotiva
  • dessportiva
  • dseportiva
  • edsportiva

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of desportiva - 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.

ddesportiva1depsortiva2desoprtiva2desporitva2desporrtiva1desportiav2desportivva1desporttiva1
Edit distance from "desportiva"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "desportiva"?
"desportiva" is spelled D-E-S-P-O-R-T-I-V-A.
What does "desportiva" mean?
As a noun, "desportiva" means: alegria, contentamento, felicidade
What words are commonly confused with "desportiva"?
"desportiva" is commonly confused with "desportivo", "desportista". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "desportiva" come from?
"desportiva" is a Portuguese word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "desportiva", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (15 here; floor ≥5).

intervalos15 variantsmediterrâneo15 variantscertificar15 variantscooperativa15 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list