garçon
/ɡaʁ.sɔ̃/
The verdict
“garçon” has 8 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #46,863. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #46,863
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 521
- “G” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - menino; criança de sexo masculino
Corpus desk
Index PT-garcon · garçon · Portuguese
garçon · rank #46,863 · 8 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #46,863
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 521
- PHOTO-FINISH giga
Nearest frequency peer: giga (+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 “garçon”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- filantropo
filantropo
53,152 corpus weight
- fogaça
fogaça
53,149 corpus weight
- garçon
garçon
53,138 corpus weight
- giga
giga
53,136 corpus weight
- GQ
GQ
53,133 corpus weight
- harmonizar
harmonizar
53,129 corpus weight
What this shows “garçon” 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 | garçon |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ɡaʁ.sɔ̃/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #46,863 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “garçon”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around garçon (IPA /ɡaʁ.sɔ̃/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #46,863 among 521 “G” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for garçon, with forms such as "agrçon", "garoçn", and "garrçon". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "garfo", "garden", "garça", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Portuguese form is garçon, spelled G-A-R-Ç-O-N.
Definition
- 1menino; criança de sexo masculino
- 2rapaz
- 3empregado de um artesão
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- agrçon
- garoçn
- garrçon
- garçno
- garçonn
- gaçron
- ggarçon
- graçon
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of garçon - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 "garçon", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).