grotesco
/ɡɾu.ˈteʃ.ku/
The verdict
“grotesco” has 12 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #31,800. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #31,800
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 521
- “G” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - que suscita riso ou escárnio; ridículo
Corpus desk
Index PT-grotesco · grotesco · Portuguese
grotesco · rank #31,800 · 12 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #31,800
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 521
- PHOTO-FINISH Hai
Nearest frequency peer: Hai (+5 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 “grotesco”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- fundamental…
fundamentalista
68,217 corpus weight
- furor
furor
68,216 corpus weight
- fuzilamento
fuzilamento
68,215 corpus weight
- gemer
gemer
68,214 corpus weight
- grotesco
grotesco
68,201 corpus weight
- Hai
Hai
68,196 corpus weight
What this shows “grotesco” está entre estes pares FrequencyWords; a profundidade de typo mede-se à parte no gráfico de distância de edição.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | grotesco |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ɡɾu.ˈteʃ.ku/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #31,800 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “grotesco”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around grotesco (IPA /ɡɾu.ˈteʃ.ku/), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #31,800 among 521 “G” headwords. Dominant gloss: "que suscita riso ou escárnio; ridículo".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for grotesco, with forms such as "ggrotesco", "gortesco", and "groetsco". 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. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Portuguese form is grotesco, spelled G-R-O-T-E-S-C-O.
Definition
- 1que suscita riso ou escárnio; ridículo
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ggrotesco
- gortesco
- groetsco
- grotecso
- grotescco
- grotesoc
- grotessco
- grotseco
- grottesco
- grrotesco
- grtoesco
- rgotesco
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of grotesco - 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.
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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).