escravo
The verdict
“escravo” has 10 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #5,529. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #5,529
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,279
- “E” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - pessoa que foi escravizada
Corpus desk
Index PT-escravo · escravo · Portuguese
escravo · rank #5,529 · 10 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,529
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,279
- PHOTO-FINISH encarar
Nearest frequency peer: encarar (-2 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 “escravo”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- diploma
diploma
94,479 corpus weight
- eletricidade
eletricidade
94,476 corpus weight
- encarar
encarar
94,474 corpus weight
- escravo
escravo
94,472 corpus weight
- esquadrão
esquadrão
94,469 corpus weight
- facilidade
facilidade
94,467 corpus weight
What this shows “escravo” 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 | escravo |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #5,529 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “escravo”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around escravo, anoun. Corpus frequency is #5,529 among 1,279 “E” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for escravo, with forms such as "ecsravo", "escarvo", and "esccravo". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "escrito", "escreva", "estrago", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct Portuguese form is escravo, spelled E-S-C-R-A-V-O.
Definition
- 1pessoa que foi escravizada
- 2pessoa dominada fisicamente ou psicologicamente por algo ou alguém
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how escravo appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ecsravo
- escarvo
- esccravo
- escraov
- escravvo
- escrravo
- escrvao
- esrcavo
- esscravo
- secravo
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of escravo - 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.
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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "escravo", 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).