escutar
/iʃ.ku.ˈtaɾ/
The verdict
“escutar” has 10 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #4,472. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #4,472
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,279
- “E” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 14
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - prestar atenção auditiva; dar ouvidos
Corpus desk
Index PT-escutar · escutar · Portuguese
escutar · rank #4,472 · 10 variants · 14 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #4,472
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 14 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,279
- PHOTO-FINISH equador
Nearest frequency peer: equador (-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.
Pares de rank junto ao íman ortográfico “escutar”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- Edward
Edward
95,534 corpus weight
- eliminação
eliminação
95,533 corpus weight
- equador
equador
95,530 corpus weight
- escutar
escutar
95,529 corpus weight
- excelência
excelência
95,525 corpus weight
- facilitar
facilitar
95,524 corpus weight
What this shows “escutar” 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 | escutar |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /iʃ.ku.ˈtaɾ/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #4,472 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 14 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “escutar”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around escutar (IPA /iʃ.ku.ˈtaɾ/), averb. Corpus frequency is #4,472 among 1,279 “E” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for escutar, with forms such as "ecsutar", "esccutar", and "esctuar". 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 14 confusable-pair relationships, "estar", "estudar", "esgotar", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Portuguese form is escutar, spelled E-S-C-U-T-A-R.
Definition
- 1prestar atenção auditiva; dar ouvidos
- 2obedecer, seguir o que é ordenado
- 3esperar com atenção algum som
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how escutar appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Escutou impassível as reclamações do cliente.
As crianças de hoje não escutam mais os pais.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ecsutar
- esccutar
- esctuar
- escuatr
- escutarr
- escutra
- escuttar
- esscutar
- esuctar
- secutar
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of escutar - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "escutar", 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).