guard
/ɡɑːd/
The verdict
“guard” has 7 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #26,408. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #26,408
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 521
- “G” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - guarda
Corpus desk
Index PT-guard · guard · Portuguese
guard · rank #26,408 · 7 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-MID #26,408
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 521
- PHOTO-FINISH ginasta
Nearest frequency peer: ginasta (-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 “guard”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- flutuar
flutuar
73,607 corpus weight
- fronte
fronte
73,604 corpus weight
- fábula
fábula
73,601 corpus weight
- ginasta
ginasta
73,598 corpus weight
- guard
guard
73,593 corpus weight
- hidratar
hidratar
73,584 corpus weight
What this shows “guard” 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 | guard |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ɡɑːd/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #26,408 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “guard”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around guard (IPA /ɡɑːd/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #26,408 among 521 “G” headwords. Dominant gloss: "guarda".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for guard, with forms such as "gaurd", "gguard", and "guadr". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "guru", "guiar", "guardar", 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 is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Portuguese form is guard, spelled G-U-A-R-D.
Definition
- 1guarda
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- gaurd
- gguard
- guadr
- guardd
- guarrd
- gurad
- ugard
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of guard - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).