galão
/ɡɐ.ˈlɐ̃w̃/
The verdict
“galão” has 6 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #27,496. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #27,496
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 521
- “G” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - tira de tecido bordada com fios e usada como ornamentação de roupas, estofamentos, etc
Corpus desk
Index PT-galao · galão · Portuguese
galão · rank #27,496 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #27,496
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 521
- PHOTO-FINISH fôssemos
Nearest frequency peer: fôssemos (-3 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 “galão”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- faísca
faísca
72,520 corpus weight
- Fernão
Fernão
72,518 corpus weight
- fundir
fundir
72,509 corpus weight
- fôssemos
fôssemos
72,508 corpus weight
- galão
galão
72,505 corpus weight
- guilty
guilty
72,490 corpus weight
What this shows “galão” 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 | galão |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ɡɐ.ˈlɐ̃w̃/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #27,496 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “galão”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around galão (IPA /ɡɐ.ˈlɐ̃w̃/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #27,496 among 521 “G” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for galão, with forms such as "aglão", "gallão", and "galoã". 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, "gato", "gelo", "gama", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Portuguese form is galão, spelled G-A-L-Ã-O.
Definition
- 1tira de tecido bordada com fios e usada como ornamentação de roupas, estofamentos, etc
- 2tira dourada ou distintivo que representa a patente militar em alguns uniformes
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aglão
- gallão
- galoã
- gaãlo
- ggalão
- glaão
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of galão - 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 "galão", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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 (6 here; floor ≥5).