discreto
The verdict
“discreto” has 12 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #12,224. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #12,224
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,193
- “D” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - judicioso em sua conduta e em seu discurso, especialmente em relação a respeitar a privacidade ou a manter silêncio sobre assuntos de natureza delicada; circunspecto
Corpus desk
Index PT-discreto · discreto · Portuguese
discreto · rank #12,224 · 12 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #12,224
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,193
- PHOTO-FINISH dino
Nearest frequency peer: dino (-3 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 “discreto”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- cândido
cândido
87,789 corpus weight
- desmatamento
desmatamento
87,783 corpus weight
- dino
dino
87,780 corpus weight
- discreto
discreto
87,777 corpus weight
- encantador
encantador
87,767 corpus weight
- energy
energy
87,765 corpus weight
What this shows “discreto” 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 | discreto |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #12,224 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “discreto”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around discreto, anadjective. Corpus frequency is #12,224 among 1,193 “D” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for discreto, with forms such as "ddiscreto", "dicsreto", and "disccreto". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "distrito", "direto", "decreto", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 discreto, spelled D-I-S-C-R-E-T-O.
Definition
- 1judicioso em sua conduta e em seu discurso, especialmente em relação a respeitar a privacidade ou a manter silêncio sobre assuntos de natureza delicada; circunspecto
- 2que mostra prudência ou circunspecção
- 3sem ostentação; moderado; sem excesso
- 4separado, distinto
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how discreto appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Por fim, a aproximação entre chineses e birmaneses guarda um paradoxo surpreendente: uma discreta pressão da China por reformas políticas no país vizinho.
Mas as atuações discretas nos primeiros jogos o transformaram num alvo de críticas da imprensa italiana.
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddiscreto
- dicsreto
- disccreto
- discerto
- discreot
- discretto
- discrreto
- discrteo
- disrceto
- disscreto
- dsicreto
- idscreto
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of discreto - 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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).