gray
/'greɪ/
The verdict
“gray” has 6 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #10,365. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #10,365
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 521
- “G” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - unidade no Sistema Internacional de medidas, representado por Gy, que representa a quantidade de energia de radiação ionizante absorvida (ou dose) por unidade de massa, e é definido como a quantida...
Corpus desk
Index PT-gray · gray · Portuguese
gray · rank #10,365 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #10,365
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 521
- PHOTO-FINISH homossexualid…
Nearest frequency peer: homossexualidade (+2 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 “gray”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- Georgia
Georgia
89,640 corpus weight
- gray
gray
89,636 corpus weight
- homossexual…
homossexualidade
89,634 corpus weight
- honrar
honrar
89,633 corpus weight
- hélio
hélio
89,632 corpus weight
- incidência
incidência
89,630 corpus weight
What this shows “gray” 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 | gray |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /'greɪ/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #10,365 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “gray”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around gray (IPA /'greɪ/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #10,365 among 521 “G” headwords. Dominant gloss: "unidade no Sistema Internacional de medidas, representado por Gy, que representa a quantidade de energia de radiação ionizante absorvida (ou dose) por unidade de massa, e é definido como a quantida...".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for gray, with forms such as "gary", "ggray", and "grayy". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "guy", "grey", "grow", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Portuguese form is gray, spelled G-R-A-Y.
Definition
- 1unidade no Sistema Internacional de medidas, representado por Gy, que representa a quantidade de energia de radiação ionizante absorvida (ou dose) por unidade de massa, e é definido como a quantidade que deposita 1 joule (J) de energia por quilograma (kg) do meio absorvedor, sendo 1 Gy = 1 J/kg
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- gary
- ggray
- grayy
- grray
- grya
- rgay
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of gray - 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 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).