folclore
/fɔɫ.ˈklɔ.ɾɨ/
The verdict
“folclore” has 12 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #10,723. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #10,723
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 853
- “F” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - ciência das tradições, dos costumes e das artes populares
Corpus desk
Index PT-folclore · folclore · Portuguese
folclore · rank #10,723 · 12 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #10,723
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 853
- PHOTO-FINISH fogão
Nearest frequency peer: fogão (-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 “folclore”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- falecimento
falecimento
89,285 corpus weight
- farto
farto
89,283 corpus weight
- finalizar
finalizar
89,282 corpus weight
- fogão
fogão
89,279 corpus weight
- folclore
folclore
89,278 corpus weight
- gatinho
gatinho
89,271 corpus weight
What this shows “folclore” está entre estes pares FrequencyWords; a profundidade de typo mede-se à parte no gráfico de distância de edição.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | folclore |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /fɔɫ.ˈklɔ.ɾɨ/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #10,723 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “folclore”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around folclore (IPA /fɔɫ.ˈklɔ.ɾɨ/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #10,723 among 853 “F” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for folclore, with forms such as "ffolclore", "floclore", and "focllore". 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. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology 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 folclore, spelled F-O-L-C-L-O-R-E.
Definition
- 1ciência das tradições, dos costumes e das artes populares
- 2conjunto das tradições, das lendas, dos cantos e dos poemas de um país ou duma região
- 3canção popular antiga transmitida oralmente de autor que se desconhece
- 4demopsicologia
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ffolclore
- floclore
- focllore
- folcclore
- folcllore
- folcloer
- folclorre
- folclroe
- folcolre
- follclore
- follcore
- oflclore
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of folclore - 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 "folclore", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).