fort
The verdict
“fort” has 6 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #11,467. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #11,467
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 853
- “F” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - forte
Corpus desk
Index PT-fort · fort · Portuguese
fort · rank #11,467 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #11,467
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 853
- PHOTO-FINISH foste
Nearest frequency peer: foste (+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 “fort”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- film
film
88,539 corpus weight
- flexível
flexível
88,538 corpus weight
- fort
fort
88,534 corpus weight
- foste
foste
88,532 corpus weight
- François
François
88,531 corpus weight
- fértil
fértil
88,530 corpus weight
What this shows “fort” 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 | fort |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #11,467 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “fort”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around fort, anoun. Corpus frequency is #11,467 among 853 “F” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for fort, with forms such as "ffort", "forrt", and "fortt". 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, "foz", "fry", "foto", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Portuguese form is fort, spelled F-O-R-T.
Definition
- 1forte
- 2forte
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how fort appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La défense du fort de Vaux.
L’histoire est son fort.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ffort
- forrt
- fortt
- fotr
- frot
- ofrt
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of fort - 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 "fort", 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 (6 here; floor ≥5).