farofa
The verdict
“farofa” has 8 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #15,578. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #15,578
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 853
- “F” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - que apresenta uma qualidade não elevada, que não tem excelência, simplório, ordinário, que deixa a desejar, que não detém a essência de uma arte na sua expressão
Corpus desk
Index PT-farofa · farofa · Portuguese
farofa · rank #15,578 · 8 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #15,578
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 853
- PHOTO-FINISH falsificação
Nearest frequency peer: falsificação (-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 “farofa”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- estrelado
estrelado
84,428 corpus weight
- explosivo
explosivo
84,426 corpus weight
- Fall
Fall
84,425 corpus weight
- falsificação
falsificação
84,424 corpus weight
- farofa
farofa
84,423 corpus weight
- fragmento
fragmento
84,418 corpus weight
What this shows “farofa” 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 | farofa |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #15,578 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “farofa”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around farofa, anadjective. Corpus frequency is #15,578 among 853 “F” headwords. Dominant gloss: "que apresenta uma qualidade não elevada, que não tem excelência, simplório, ordinário, que deixa a desejar, que não detém a essência de uma arte na sua expressão".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for farofa, with forms such as "afrofa", "faorfa", and "farfoa". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "frota", "farol", "farra", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 farofa, spelled F-A-R-O-F-A.
Definition
- 1que apresenta uma qualidade não elevada, que não tem excelência, simplório, ordinário, que deixa a desejar, que não detém a essência de uma arte na sua expressão
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how farofa appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Letras de música nonsense, de todo aquele pop farofa do começo dos anos 80, que mesmo assim apaziguavam a minha mente.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- afrofa
- faorfa
- farfoa
- faroaf
- faroffa
- farrofa
- ffarofa
- fraofa
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of farofa - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "farofa", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).