doubt
The verdict
“doubt” has 7 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #36,855. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #36,855
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,193
- “D” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - dúvida
Corpus desk
Index PT-doubt · doubt · Portuguese
doubt · rank #36,855 · 7 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #36,855
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,193
- PHOTO-FINISH dicção
Nearest frequency peer: dicção (-6 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 “doubt”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- dicção
dicção
63,152 corpus weight
- doubt
doubt
63,146 corpus weight
- dynamic
dynamic
63,140 corpus weight
- dínamo
dínamo
63,139 corpus weight
- Edmonton
Edmonton
63,138 corpus weight
- efígie
efígie
63,137 corpus weight
What this shows “doubt” 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 | doubt |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #36,855 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “doubt”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around doubt, anoun. Corpus frequency is #36,855 among 1,193 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "dúvida".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for doubt, with forms such as "ddoubt", "dobut", and "doubbt". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "dub", "doula", "dot", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct Portuguese form is doubt, spelled D-O-U-B-T.
Definition
- 1dúvida
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how doubt appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
I have no doubt, that the civil and criminal charges are true.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddoubt
- dobut
- doubbt
- doubtt
- doutb
- duobt
- odubt
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of doubt - 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 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).