GOAT
The verdict
“GOAT” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #45,377) as an abbreviation. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #45,377
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 521
- “G” headwords
- 3
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - sigla para "greatest of all time" ("maior de todos os tempos")
Corpus desk
Index PT-goat · GOAT · Portuguese
GOAT · rank #45,377 · 3 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #45,377
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 3 variants
- BOOK-MID 521
- PHOTO-FINISH gim
Nearest frequency peer: gim (-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.
Vizinhos de frequência do confusável “GOAT”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- foreman
foreman
54,637 corpus weight
- gim
gim
54,625 corpus weight
- GOAT
GOAT
54,624 corpus weight
- génese
génese
54,616 corpus weight
- hierárquico
hierárquico
54,612 corpus weight
- honorável
honorável
54,611 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “GOAT” face aos lemas portugueses mais próximos por rank, não um reprint da secretária de confusáveis.
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 | GOAT |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Abbreviation |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #45,377 |
| Misspellings tracked | 3 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “GOAT”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for GOAT is neighbouring look-alikes ("gol", "god", …), not just typos; it is anabbreviation. Frequency #45,377 among 521 “G” headwords. Gloss: "sigla para "greatest of all time" ("maior de todos os tempos")".
Our generated misspelling index lists 3 likely wrong-spelling variants for GOAT, with forms such as "ggoat", "goatt", and "ogat". 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, "gol", "god", "grau", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Portuguese form is GOAT, spelled G-O-A-T.
Definition
- 1sigla para "greatest of all time" ("maior de todos os tempos")
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how GOAT appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pelé is the GOAT of soccer.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ggoat
- goatt
- ogat
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of GOAT - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).