flash
/ˈflaʃ/
The verdict
“flash” has 8 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #5,006. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #5,006
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 853
- “F” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - ver flache, fleche
Corpus desk
Index PT-flash · flash · Portuguese
flash · rank #5,006 · 8 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,006
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 853
- PHOTO-FINISH forçado
Nearest frequency peer: forçado (+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 “flash”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- documentação
documentação
95,002 corpus weight
- donos
donos
95,001 corpus weight
- flash
flash
94,995 corpus weight
- forçado
forçado
94,994 corpus weight
- fraude
fraude
94,993 corpus weight
- galinha
galinha
94,990 corpus weight
What this shows “flash” 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 | flash |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈflaʃ/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #5,006 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “flash”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around flash (IPA /ˈflaʃ/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #5,006 among 853 “F” headwords. Dominant gloss: "ver flache, fleche".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for flash, with forms such as "falsh", "fflash", and "flahs". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "flat", "fresh", "flesh", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Portuguese form is flash, spelled F-L-A-S-H.
Definition
- 1ver flache, fleche
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- falsh
- fflash
- flahs
- flashh
- flassh
- fllash
- flsah
- lfash
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of flash - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).