feto
/ˈfeː.toː/
The verdict
“feto” has 5 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #13,082. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #13,082
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 853
- “F” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - engravidar (alguém), fecundar, tornar frutífero
Corpus desk
Index PT-feto · feto · Portuguese
feto · rank #13,082 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #13,082
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-MID 853
- PHOTO-FINISH fixação
Nearest frequency peer: fixação (+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 “feto”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- equilibrar
equilibrar
86,927 corpus weight
- Eve
Eve
86,924 corpus weight
- feto
feto
86,919 corpus weight
- fixação
fixação
86,917 corpus weight
- Friday
Friday
86,915 corpus weight
- fósforo
fósforo
86,912 corpus weight
What this shows “feto” 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 | feto |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ˈfeː.toː/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #13,082 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “feto”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around feto (IPA /ˈfeː.toː/), averb. Corpus frequency is #13,082 among 853 “F” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for feto, with forms such as "efto", "feot", and "fetto". 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, "fez", "fio", "fit", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Portuguese form is feto, spelled F-E-T-O.
Definition
- 1engravidar (alguém), fecundar, tornar frutífero
- 2produzir, frutificar, dar à luz
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- efto
- feot
- fetto
- ffeto
- fteo
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of feto - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 "feto", 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).