generalista
/ʒɨ.nɨ.ɾɐ.ˈliʃ.tɐ/
The verdict
“generalista” has 16 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #34,737. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #34,737
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,241
- “G” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - aquele que tem conhecimentos gerais de muitas matérias
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | generalista |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ʒɨ.nɨ.ɾɐ.ˈliʃ.tɐ/ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #34,737 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “generalista” sits in Portuguese frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around generalista (IPA /ʒɨ.nɨ.ɾɐ.ˈliʃ.tɐ/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #34,737 among 1,241 “G” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for generalista, with forms such as "egneralista", "geenralista", and "genearlista". 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. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 generalista, spelled G-E-N-E-R-A-L-I-S-T-A.
Definition
- 1aquele que tem conhecimentos gerais de muitas matérias
- 2o mesmo que internista
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- egneralista
- geenralista
- genearlista
- generailsta
- generalisat
- generalissta
- generalistta
- generalitsa
- generallista
- generalsita
- generlaista
- generralista
- genneralista
- genrealista
- ggeneralista
- gneeralista
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of generalista - 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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Using “generalista”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is G-E-N-E-R-A-L-I-S-T-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ʒɨ.nɨ.ɾɐ.ˈliʃ.tɐ/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.