duto
/'du.tʊ/.
The verdict
“duto” has 5 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #35,558. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #35,558
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,193
- “D” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 2, 2026) - cano (peça cilíndrica oca)
Corpus desk
Index PT-duto · duto · Portuguese
duto · rank #35,558 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #35,558
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,193
- PHOTO-FINISH dub
Nearest frequency peer: dub (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “duto”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- desonestida…
desonestidade
64,457 corpus weight
- destruidora
destruidora
64,455 corpus weight
- dub
dub
64,444 corpus weight
- duto
duto
64,443 corpus weight
- emagrecimen…
emagrecimento
64,437 corpus weight
- engenhoso
engenhoso
64,432 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “duto” sits against the nearest ranked Portuguese headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | duto |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /'du.tʊ/. |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #35,558 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “duto” sits in Portuguese frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around duto (IPA /'du.tʊ/.), anoun. Corpus frequency is #35,558 among 1,193 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "cano (peça cilíndrica oca)".
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for duto, with forms such as "dduto", "dtuo", and "duot". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "duty", "do", "du", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is duto, spelled D-U-T-O.
Definition
- 1cano (peça cilíndrica oca)
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- dduto
- dtuo
- duot
- dutto
- udto
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of duto - 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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of September 2, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "duto", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).
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.