giro
/ˈʒi.ɾu/
The verdict
“giro” has 5 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #4,914. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #4,914
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 521
- “G” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - galante, interessante, agradável, engraçado
Corpus desk
Index PT-giro · giro · Portuguese
giro · rank #4,914 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #4,914
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-MID 521
- PHOTO-FINISH get
Nearest frequency peer: get (-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 “giro”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- garrafa
garrafa
95,090 corpus weight
- get
get
95,089 corpus weight
- giro
giro
95,087 corpus weight
- gravidez
gravidez
95,085 corpus weight
- grito
grito
95,084 corpus weight
- gráfico
gráfico
95,083 corpus weight
What this shows “giro” 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 | giro |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ˈʒi.ɾu/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #4,914 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “giro”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around giro (IPA /ˈʒi.ɾu/), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #4,914 among 521 “G” headwords. Dominant gloss: "galante, interessante, agradável, engraçado".
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for giro, with forms such as "ggiro", "gior", and "girro". 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, "go", "giz", "grão", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists 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 giro, spelled G-I-R-O.
Definition
- 1galante, interessante, agradável, engraçado
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ggiro
- gior
- girro
- grio
- igro
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of giro - 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 "giro", 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).