gama
/ˈɡɐ.mɐ/
The verdict
“gama” has 5 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #3,333. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #3,333
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 521
- “G” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - série contínua de grandezas mensuráveis
Corpus desk
Index PT-gama · gama · Portuguese
gama · rank #3,333 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #3,333
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-MID 521
- PHOTO-FINISH funcionamento
Nearest frequency peer: funcionamento (-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 “gama”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- forem
forem
96,671 corpus weight
- free
free
96,670 corpus weight
- funcionamen…
funcionamento
96,669 corpus weight
- gama
gama
96,668 corpus weight
- lance
lance
96,666 corpus weight
- lavar
lavar
96,665 corpus weight
What this shows “gama” 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 | gama |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈɡɐ.mɐ/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #3,333 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “gama”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around gama (IPA /ˈɡɐ.mɐ/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #3,333 among 521 “G” headwords. Dominant gloss: "série contínua de grandezas mensuráveis".
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for gama, with forms such as "agma", "gaam", and "gamma". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "gay", "gás", "gem", 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 its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is gama, spelled G-A-M-A.
Definition
- 1série contínua de grandezas mensuráveis
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- agma
- gaam
- gamma
- ggama
- gmaa
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of gama - 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 "gama", 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 (5 here; floor ≥5).