foto
/'fɔ.tu/
The verdict
“foto” has 5 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #211. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #211
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 853
- “F” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - fotografia
Corpus desk
Index PT-foto · foto · Portuguese
foto · rank #211 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #211
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-MID 853
- PHOTO-FINISH lugar
Nearest frequency peer: lugar (+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 “foto”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- vamos
vamos
99,794 corpus weight
- verdade
verdade
99,793 corpus weight
- foto
foto
99,790 corpus weight
- lugar
lugar
99,789 corpus weight
- nacional
nacional
99,788 corpus weight
- país
país
99,787 corpus weight
What this shows “foto” 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 | foto |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /'fɔ.tu/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #211 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “foto”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around foto (IPA /'fɔ.tu/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #211 among 853 “F” headwords. Dominant gloss: "fotografia".
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for foto, with forms such as "ffoto", "foot", and "fotto". 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", "frio", "fumo", 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 spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Portuguese form is foto, spelled F-O-T-O.
Definition
- 1fotografia
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ffoto
- foot
- fotto
- ftoo
- ofto
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of foto - 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 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).