espinal
The verdict
“espinal” has 10 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #49,953. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #49,953
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,279
- “E” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - relativo à espinha ou à coluna vertebral
Corpus desk
Index PT-espinal · espinal · Portuguese
espinal · rank #49,953 · 10 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-MID #49,953
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,279
- PHOTO-FINISH espairecer
Nearest frequency peer: espairecer (-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 “espinal”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- embrionário
embrionário
50,063 corpus weight
- encravado
encravado
50,058 corpus weight
- espairecer
espairecer
50,050 corpus weight
- espinal
espinal
50,048 corpus weight
- Ezekiel
Ezekiel
50,036 corpus weight
- feltro
feltro
50,031 corpus weight
What this shows “espinal” 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 | espinal |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #49,953 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “espinal”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around espinal, anadjective. Corpus frequency is #49,953 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 espinal, with forms such as "epsinal", "esipnal", and "espianl". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 8 confusable-pair relationships, "espinha", "espinho", "espinhal", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Portuguese form is espinal, spelled E-S-P-I-N-A-L.
Definition
- 1relativo à espinha ou à coluna vertebral
- 2referente à medula espinhal
- 3que se localiza ou se desenvolve ao longo da coluna vertebral
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how espinal appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
A meningite pode afetar a medula espinal
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- epsinal
- esipnal
- espianl
- espinall
- espinla
- espinnal
- espnial
- esppinal
- esspinal
- sepinal
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of espinal - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 "espinal", 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).