garça
/ˈɡaɾ.sɐ/
The verdict
“garça” has 5 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #33,865. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #33,865
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 521
- “G” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 15
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - ave pernalta aquática de bico comprido
Corpus desk
Index PT-garca · garça · Portuguese
garça · rank #33,865 · 5 variants · 15 confusables
- FREQ-MID #33,865
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 15 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-MID 521
- PHOTO-FINISH ganga
Nearest frequency peer: ganga (-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 “garça”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- fotossíntese
fotossíntese
66,149 corpus weight
- fármaco
fármaco
66,142 corpus weight
- ganga
ganga
66,139 corpus weight
- garça
garça
66,136 corpus weight
- gramatical
gramatical
66,130 corpus weight
- honroso
honroso
66,124 corpus weight
What this shows “garça” 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 | garça |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈɡaɾ.sɐ/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #33,865 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 15 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “garça”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around garça (IPA /ˈɡaɾ.sɐ/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #33,865 among 521 “G” headwords. Dominant gloss: "ave pernalta aquática de bico comprido".
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for garça, with forms such as "agrça", "garaç", and "garrça". 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 15 confusable-pair relationships, "gira", "gari", "grua", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
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 garça, spelled G-A-R-Ç-A.
Definition
- 1ave pernalta aquática de bico comprido
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- agrça
- garaç
- garrça
- gaçra
- ggarça
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of garça - 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 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).