estrada
/ɪʃ.ˈtɾa.dɐ/
The verdict
“estrada” has 10 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #1,192. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,192
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,279
- “E” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 10
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - via terrestre por onde passam veículos ou pessoas:
Corpus desk
Index PT-estrada · estrada · Portuguese
estrada · rank #1,192 · 10 variants · 10 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,192
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,279
- PHOTO-FINISH espírito
Nearest frequency peer: espírito (-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 “estrada”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- desejo
desejo
98,812 corpus weight
- diante
diante
98,811 corpus weight
- espírito
espírito
98,810 corpus weight
- estrada
estrada
98,809 corpus weight
- festival
festival
98,808 corpus weight
- geração
geração
98,807 corpus weight
What this shows “estrada” 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 | estrada |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ɪʃ.ˈtɾa.dɐ/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #1,192 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “estrada”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around estrada (IPA /ɪʃ.ˈtɾa.dɐ/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #1,192 among 1,279 “E” headwords. Wiktionary lists 6 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for estrada, with forms such as "esrtada", "esstrada", and "estarda". 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 10 confusable-pair relationships, "estrela", "estreia", "estrago", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Portuguese form is estrada, spelled E-S-T-R-A-D-A.
Definition
- 1via terrestre por onde passam veículos ou pessoas:
- 2qualquer caminho que serve para circulação
- 3via para veículos automotores
- 4meio utilizado para alcançar um fim
- 5modo de atingir objetivos (na vida)
- 6espécie de andadura curta e cômoda
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how estrada appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
O bucólico e mal asseado latão de leite na beira da estrada teve seus dias contados.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- esrtada
- esstrada
- estarda
- estraad
- estradda
- estrdaa
- estrrada
- esttrada
- etsrada
- setrada
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of estrada - 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 "estrada", 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).