devolver
/dɨ.voɫ.ˈveɾ/
The verdict
“devolver” has 12 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #6,638. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #6,638
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,193
- “D” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - entregar ou enviar à origem o que se havia recebido
Corpus desk
Index PT-devolver · devolver · Portuguese
devolver · rank #6,638 · 12 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #6,638
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,193
- PHOTO-FINISH discriminação
Nearest frequency peer: discriminação (+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 “devolver”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- cúpula
cúpula
93,368 corpus weight
- devolver
devolver
93,363 corpus weight
- discriminaç…
discriminação
93,362 corpus weight
- disputar
disputar
93,359 corpus weight
- dividida
dividida
93,358 corpus weight
- dominar
dominar
93,357 corpus weight
What this shows “devolver” está entre estes pares FrequencyWords; a profundidade de typo mede-se à parte no gráfico de distância de edição.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | devolver |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /dɨ.voɫ.ˈveɾ/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #6,638 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “devolver”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around devolver (IPA /dɨ.voɫ.ˈveɾ/), averb. Corpus frequency is #6,638 among 1,193 “D” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for devolver, with forms such as "ddevolver", "deovlver", and "devlover". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Portuguese form is devolver, spelled D-E-V-O-L-V-E-R.
Definition
- 1entregar ou enviar à origem o que se havia recebido
- 2não aceitar
- 3reenviar
- 4recambiar
- 5rejeitar
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddevolver
- deovlver
- devlover
- devolevr
- devollver
- devolverr
- devolvre
- devolvver
- devovler
- devvolver
- dveolver
- edvolver
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of devolver - 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 "devolver", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).