greve
/ˈɡɾɛ.vɨ/
The verdict
“greve” has 7 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #3,406. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #3,406
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 521
- “G” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 12
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - paralisação das atividades de uma escola, fábrica, etc enquanto os alunos ou funcionários esperam que suas reivindicações sejam atendidas pela diretoria do estabelecimento
Corpus desk
Index PT-greve · greve · Portuguese
greve · rank #3,406 · 7 variants · 12 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #3,406
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 12 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 521
- PHOTO-FINISH guardar
Nearest frequency peer: guardar (+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.
Pares de rank junto ao íman ortográfico “greve”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- gerar
gerar
96,599 corpus weight
- gravação
gravação
96,597 corpus weight
- greve
greve
96,595 corpus weight
- guardar
guardar
96,594 corpus weight
- Hugo
Hugo
96,593 corpus weight
- I'm
I'm
96,591 corpus weight
What this shows “greve” 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 | greve |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈɡɾɛ.vɨ/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #3,406 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “greve”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around greve (IPA /ˈɡɾɛ.vɨ/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #3,406 among 521 “G” headwords. Dominant gloss: "paralisação das atividades de uma escola, fábrica, etc enquanto os alunos ou funcionários esperam que suas reivindicações sejam atendidas pela diretoria do estabelecimento".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for greve, with forms such as "gerve", "ggreve", and "greev". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 12 confusable-pair relationships, "grey", "gripe", "grife", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 greve, spelled G-R-E-V-E.
Definition
- 1paralisação das atividades de uma escola, fábrica, etc enquanto os alunos ou funcionários esperam que suas reivindicações sejam atendidas pela diretoria do estabelecimento
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how greve appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Antes, por sinal, os usuários do Aeroporto de Cumbica padeceram horas nas filas até as salas de embarque por conta de uma operação-padrão, ou greve branca, desencadeada pelos funcionários da Infraero, para terem as suas reivindicações salariais atendidas.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- gerve
- ggreve
- greev
- grevve
- grreve
- grvee
- rgeve
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of greve - 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 "greve", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).