echelon
/ˈɛʃəlɒn/, /ˈɛkəlɒn/
The verdict
“echelon” has 10 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #46,816. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #46,816
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,279
- “E” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - escalão.
Corpus desk
Index PT-echelon · echelon · Portuguese
echelon · rank #46,816 · 10 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #46,816
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,279
- PHOTO-FINISH engasgar
Nearest frequency peer: engasgar (+8 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 “echelon”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- dezanove
dezanove
53,204 corpus weight
- echelon
echelon
53,185 corpus weight
- engasgar
engasgar
53,177 corpus weight
- espartano
espartano
53,169 corpus weight
- estampar
estampar
53,165 corpus weight
- eternal
eternal
53,162 corpus weight
What this shows “echelon” está entre estes pares FrequencyWords; a profundidade de typo mede-se à parte no gráfico de distância de edição.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | echelon |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈɛʃəlɒn/, /ˈɛkəlɒn/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #46,816 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “echelon”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around echelon (IPA /ˈɛʃəlɒn/, /ˈɛkəlɒn/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #46,816 among 1,279 “E” headwords. Dominant gloss: "escalão.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for echelon, with forms such as "cehelon", "ecchelon", and "ecehlon". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology 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 echelon, spelled E-C-H-E-L-O-N.
Definition
- 1escalão.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cehelon
- ecchelon
- ecehlon
- echellon
- echelno
- echelonn
- echeoln
- echhelon
- echleon
- ehcelon
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of echelon - 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.
Frequently Asked Questions
How do you spell "echelon"?
What does "echelon" mean?
What are common misspellings of "echelon"?
How do you pronounce "echelon"?
What language does "echelon" come from?
Is PlainSpell free to use?
Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "echelon", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).