festejo
/fɨʃ.ˈtɐj.ʒu/
The verdict
“festejo” has 10 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #39,622. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #39,622
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 853
- “F” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - comemoração, solenidade
Corpus desk
Index PT-festejo · festejo · Portuguese
festejo · rank #39,622 · 10 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #39,622
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 853
- PHOTO-FINISH frisar
Nearest frequency peer: frisar (+13 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 “festejo”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- eufemismo
eufemismo
60,394 corpus weight
- festejo
festejo
60,379 corpus weight
- frisar
frisar
60,366 corpus weight
- galhardo
galhardo
60,365 corpus weight
- Galileia
Galileia
60,364 corpus weight
- gangrena
gangrena
60,361 corpus weight
What this shows “festejo” 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 | festejo |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /fɨʃ.ˈtɐj.ʒu/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #39,622 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “festejo”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around festejo (IPA /fɨʃ.ˈtɐj.ʒu/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #39,622 among 853 “F” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for festejo, with forms such as "efstejo", "fesetjo", and "fesstejo". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "festivo", "festejar", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Portuguese form is festejo, spelled F-E-S-T-E-J-O.
Definition
- 1comemoração, solenidade
- 2festas de igrejas
- 3celebração do ano litúrgico de grau inferior à solenidade e superior à memória
Synonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- efstejo
- fesetjo
- fesstejo
- festejjo
- festeoj
- festjeo
- festtejo
- fetsejo
- ffestejo
- fsetejo
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of festejo - 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 "festejo", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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).