graças
The verdict
“graças” has 8 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #895. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #895
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 521
- “G” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 2, 2026) - bem haja
Corpus desk
Index PT-gracas · graças · Portuguese
graças · rank #895 · 8 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #895
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 521
- PHOTO-FINISH fonte
Nearest frequency peer: fonte (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “graças”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- esperar
esperar
99,110 corpus weight
- fonte
fonte
99,107 corpus weight
- graças
graças
99,106 corpus weight
- John
John
99,103 corpus weight
- mortos
mortos
99,102 corpus weight
- notícias
notícias
99,101 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “graças” sits against the nearest ranked Portuguese headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | graças |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #895 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “graças” sits in Portuguese frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around graças, aninterjection. Corpus frequency is #895 among 521 “G” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for graças, with forms such as "garças", "ggraças", and "graaçs". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "grama", "grace", "graxa", 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, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Portuguese form is graças, spelled G-R-A-Ç-A-S.
Definition
- 1bem haja
- 2muito obrigado
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how graças appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Graças, meu Deus!
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- garças
- ggraças
- graaçs
- graçass
- graçsa
- grraças
- grçaas
- rgaças
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of graças - 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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of September 2, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "graças", 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 (8 here; floor ≥5).
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.