gordo
The verdict
“gordo” has 7 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #4,819. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #4,819
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,241
- “G” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 14
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - constituído de gordura ou matéria untuosa
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 | gordo |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #4,819 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 14 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “gordo” sits in Portuguese frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around gordo, anadjective. Corpus frequency is #4,819 among 1,241 “G” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for gordo, with forms such as "ggordo", "godro", and "gorddo". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 14 confusable-pair relationships, "grão", "gosto", "Guido", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is gordo, spelled G-O-R-D-O.
Definition
- 1constituído de gordura ou matéria untuosa
- 2que tem grande quantidade de tecido adiposo
- 3volumoso, considerável
- 4fértil (terreno)
- 5pertencente ao período do carnaval:
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ggordo,godro,gorddo,gorod,gorrdo,grodo,ogrdo
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of gordo - 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 “gordo”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is G-O-R-D-O - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Don't mix it up with “grão” - see the side-by-side comparison. gordo vs grão
- Browse more Portuguese words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Portuguese words
Same frequency band
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.