fato

noun

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The verdict

“fato” has 5 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #475. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#475
frequency rank, Portuguese
853
“F” headwords
5
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - fato, roupas, vestimenta

Corpus desk

Index PT-fato · fato · Portuguese

fato · rank #475 · 5 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-CORE #475
  • LEN-MID 4 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 5 variants
  • BOOK-MID 853
  • PHOTO-FINISH educação

Nearest frequency peer: educação (-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 “fato”

Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho

corpus weight

What this shows “fato” está entre estes pares FrequencyWords; a profundidade de typo mede-se à parte no gráfico de distância de edição.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

fato vs fio
50% similar
fato vs fax
50% similar
fato vs fit
50% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for fato
PropertyValue
Headwordfato
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
Letters4
Frequency rank#475
Misspellings tracked5
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequência do íman ortográfico “fato”

Esta escala corre do núcleo do português quotidiano (esquerda) até o rastro de formas raras (direita).fatocai aqui:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

O eixo é logarítmico: cada tick marca cerca de dez vezes menos frequência. Na mesma faixa de raridade aparecem “educação” (#474), “sociedade” (#472), “legal” (#478). Entre 853 lemas com “F”, “fato” fica em #475. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 5 spelling variants around fato, anoun. Corpus frequency is #475 among 853 “F” headwords. Wiktionary lists 7 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for fato, with forms such as "afto", "faot", and "fatto". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "fio", "fax", "fit", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is fato, spelled F-A-T-O.

Definition

  1. 1
    fato, roupas, vestimenta
  2. 2
    fato, vísceras do ventre do porco, e outros animais
  3. 3
    fato, rebanho
  4. 4
    grupo de gente, grupo de coisas
  5. 5
    na lavoura da ceifa do cereal, quem amoreia e ata as gavelas
  6. 6
    cama na embarcação chamada dorna, feita de folhas da espiga do milho
  7. 7
    flato, acúmulo de gases no estômago ou intestino que produz dor ou mal-estar

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how fato appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. "Como te vêm no fato, assim é o trato."

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • afto
  • faot
  • fatto
  • ffato
  • ftao

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of fato - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

afto2faot2fatto1ffato1ftao2
Edit distance from "fato"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "fato"?
"fato" is spelled F-A-T-O.
What does "fato" mean?
As a noun, "fato" means: fato, roupas, vestimenta
What words are commonly confused with "fato"?
"fato" is commonly confused with "fio", "fax", "fit". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "fato" come from?
"fato" is a Portuguese word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "fato", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

real#454vivo#513alto#516povo#432

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).

passa5 variantsacesso5 variantsperto5 variantsapoio5 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list