fake
The verdict
“fake” has 5 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #12,887. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #12,887
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 853
- “F” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - ver falso
Corpus desk
Index PT-fake · fake · Portuguese
fake · rank #12,887 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #12,887
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-MID 853
- PHOTO-FINISH fascismo
Nearest frequency peer: fascismo (+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 “fake”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- enigma
enigma
87,123 corpus weight
- estilista
estilista
87,119 corpus weight
- fake
fake
87,114 corpus weight
- fascismo
fascismo
87,112 corpus weight
- firmado
firmado
87,108 corpus weight
- friend
friend
87,105 corpus weight
What this shows “fake” 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 | fake |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #12,887 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “fake”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around fake, anadjective. Corpus frequency is #12,887 among 853 “F” headwords. Dominant gloss: "ver falso".
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for fake, with forms such as "afke", "faek", and "fakke". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "fan", "fax", "fal", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Portuguese form is fake, spelled F-A-K-E.
Definition
- 1ver falso
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how fake appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
A conclusão da New York Magazine é clara: na internet, a medição (de audiência) é fake, as pessoas (que veem internet) são fake, o conteúdo é fake, o business como um todo é fake e o controle governamental, fake.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- afke
- faek
- fakke
- ffake
- fkae
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of fake - 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 "fake", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).