globo
/ˈɡlo.bu/
The verdict
“globo” has 7 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #959. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #959
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 521
- “G” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - corpo em formato de esfera
Corpus desk
Index PT-globo · globo · Portuguese
globo · rank #959 · 7 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #959
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 521
- PHOTO-FINISH formação
Nearest frequency peer: formação (-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 “globo”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- direção
direção
99,047 corpus weight
- entrada
entrada
99,046 corpus weight
- estilo
estilo
99,045 corpus weight
- formação
formação
99,043 corpus weight
- globo
globo
99,042 corpus weight
- humano
humano
99,041 corpus weight
What this shows “globo” 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 | globo |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈɡlo.bu/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #959 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “globo”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around globo (IPA /ˈɡlo.bu/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #959 among 521 “G” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for globo, with forms such as "gglobo", "glboo", and "gllobo". 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. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "glory", "gnomo", "globe", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Portuguese form is globo, spelled G-L-O-B-O.
Definition
- 1corpo em formato de esfera
- 2o planeta por nós habitado
- 3representação esférica do sistema planetário
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- gglobo
- glboo
- gllobo
- globbo
- gloob
- golbo
- lgobo
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of globo - 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 "globo", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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 (7 here; floor ≥5).