gostos
/ˈgos.tʊs/
The verdict
“gostos” has 9 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #11,279. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #11,279
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 521
- “G” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural de gosto
Corpus desk
Index PT-gostos · gostos · Portuguese
gostos · rank #11,279 · 9 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #11,279
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 521
- PHOTO-FINISH give
Nearest frequency peer: give (-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 “gostos”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- fascista
fascista
88,732 corpus weight
- ferrar
ferrar
88,731 corpus weight
- furo
furo
88,727 corpus weight
- give
give
88,725 corpus weight
- gostos
gostos
88,722 corpus weight
- imposição
imposição
88,714 corpus weight
What this shows “gostos” 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 | gostos |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈgos.tʊs/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #11,279 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “gostos”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around gostos (IPA /ˈgos.tʊs/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #11,279 among 521 “G” headwords. Dominant gloss: "plural de gosto".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for gostos, with forms such as "ggostos", "gosots", and "gosstos". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "gostoso", "gosto", "gesto", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct Portuguese form is gostos, spelled G-O-S-T-O-S.
Definition
- 1plural de gosto
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how gostos appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Jorge IV foi um monarca extravagante em termos de gostos pessoais e relações familiares, em especial com a mulher, a princesa Carolina de Brunswick.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ggostos
- gosots
- gosstos
- gostoss
- gostso
- gosttos
- gotsos
- gsotos
- ogstos
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of gostos - 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 "gostos", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).