esquadrão
/iʃ.kwɐ.ˈdɾɐ̃w̃/
The verdict
“esquadrão” has 12 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #5,532. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #5,532
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,279
- “E” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - conjunto de companhias num exército
Corpus desk
Index PT-esquadrao · esquadrão · Portuguese
esquadrão · rank #5,532 · 12 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,532
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,279
- PHOTO-FINISH facilidade
Nearest frequency peer: facilidade (+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 “esquadrão”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- encarar
encarar
94,474 corpus weight
- escravo
escravo
94,472 corpus weight
- esquadrão
esquadrão
94,469 corpus weight
- facilidade
facilidade
94,467 corpus weight
- fortalecer
fortalecer
94,464 corpus weight
- fortuna
fortuna
94,463 corpus weight
What this shows “esquadrão” 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 | esquadrão |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /iʃ.kwɐ.ˈdɾɐ̃w̃/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #5,532 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “esquadrão”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around esquadrão (IPA /iʃ.kwɐ.ˈdɾɐ̃w̃/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #5,532 among 1,279 “E” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for esquadrão, with forms such as "eqsuadrão", "esqaudrão", and "esqquadrão". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "esquadra", "enquadrar", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 esquadrão, spelled E-S-Q-U-A-D-R-Ã-O.
Definition
- 1conjunto de companhias num exército
- 2multidão
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- eqsuadrão
- esqaudrão
- esqquadrão
- esquaddrão
- esquadroã
- esquadrrão
- esquadãro
- esquardão
- esqudarão
- essquadrão
- esuqadrão
- sequadrão
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of esquadrão - 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 "esquadrão", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).