extinto
/ɐjʃ.ˈtĩ.tu/
The verdict
“extinto” has 10 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #14,137. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #14,137
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,279
- “E” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - que se extinguiu
Corpus desk
Index PT-extinto · extinto · Portuguese
extinto · rank #14,137 · 10 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,137
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,279
- PHOTO-FINISH extraído
Nearest frequency peer: extraído (+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 “extinto”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- esclarecime…
esclarecimento
85,871 corpus weight
- extinto
extinto
85,864 corpus weight
- extraído
extraído
85,863 corpus weight
- farra
farra
85,861 corpus weight
- fight
fight
85,860 corpus weight
- freira
freira
85,854 corpus weight
What this shows “extinto” 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 | extinto |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ɐjʃ.ˈtĩ.tu/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #14,137 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “extinto”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around extinto (IPA /ɐjʃ.ˈtĩ.tu/), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #14,137 among 1,279 “E” headwords. Dominant gloss: "que se extinguiu".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for extinto, with forms such as "etxinto", "exitnto", and "extinnto". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "extrato", "extintor", "êxito", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is extinto, spelled E-X-T-I-N-T-O.
Definition
- 1que se extinguiu
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- etxinto
- exitnto
- extinnto
- extinot
- extintto
- extitno
- extnito
- exttinto
- exxtinto
- xetinto
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of extinto - 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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).