golfe
/ˈgow.fe/
The verdict
“golfe” has 7 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #8,776. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #8,776
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 521
- “G” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 10
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - desporto individual cujo objetivo é percorrer uma série de caminhos (percursos) ao ar livre, levando uma bolinha de posições definidas até os chamados buracos à base de tacadas com um taco desportivo
Corpus desk
Index PT-golfe · golfe · Portuguese
golfe · rank #8,776 · 7 variants · 10 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #8,776
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 521
- PHOTO-FINISH Guiana
Nearest frequency peer: Guiana (+3 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 “golfe”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- fiscalização
fiscalização
91,231 corpus weight
- foca
foca
91,229 corpus weight
- golfe
golfe
91,225 corpus weight
- Guiana
Guiana
91,222 corpus weight
- Haiti
Haiti
91,221 corpus weight
- imunidade
imunidade
91,220 corpus weight
What this shows “golfe” 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 | golfe |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈgow.fe/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #8,776 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “golfe”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around golfe (IPA /ˈgow.fe/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #8,776 among 521 “G” headwords. Dominant gloss: "desporto individual cujo objetivo é percorrer uma série de caminhos (percursos) ao ar livre, levando uma bolinha de posições definidas até os chamados buracos à base de tacadas com um taco desportivo".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for golfe, with forms such as "ggolfe", "glofe", and "gofle". 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 10 confusable-pair relationships, "golpe", "golfo", "grife", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Portuguese form is golfe, spelled G-O-L-F-E.
Definition
- 1desporto individual cujo objetivo é percorrer uma série de caminhos (percursos) ao ar livre, levando uma bolinha de posições definidas até os chamados buracos à base de tacadas com um taco desportivo
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ggolfe
- glofe
- gofle
- golef
- golffe
- gollfe
- oglfe
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of golfe - 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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
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