ético
/ˈɛ.ti.ku/
The verdict
“ético” has 6 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #14,268. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #14,268
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 14
- “É” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 13
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - relativo à ética ou à moral
Corpus desk
Index PT-etico · ético · Portuguese
ético · rank #14,268 · 6 variants · 13 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,268
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 13 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 14
- PHOTO-FINISH ápice
Nearest frequency peer: ápice (-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 “ético”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- ventura
ventura
85,742 corpus weight
- ápice
ápice
85,734 corpus weight
- ético
ético
85,733 corpus weight
- êxodo
êxodo
85,732 corpus weight
- alcançada
alcançada
85,725 corpus weight
- alzheimer
alzheimer
85,724 corpus weight
What this shows “ético” 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 | ético |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ˈɛ.ti.ku/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #14,268 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 13 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “ético”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around ético (IPA /ˈɛ.ti.ku/), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #14,268 among 14 “É” headwords. Dominant gloss: "relativo à ética ou à moral".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for ético, with forms such as "téico", "éitco", and "étcio". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 13 confusable-pair relationships, "êxito", "étnico", "exótico", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Portuguese form is ético, spelled É-T-I-C-O.
Definition
- 1relativo à ética ou à moral
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- téico
- éitco
- étcio
- éticco
- étioc
- éttico
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of ético - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).