Hand
/hant/
The verdict
“Hand” has 6 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #13,761. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #13,761
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 409
- “H” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - mão
Corpus desk
Index PT-hand · Hand · Portuguese
Hand · rank #13,761 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #13,761
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 409
- PHOTO-FINISH habitat
Nearest frequency peer: habitat (-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 “Hand”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- goleada
goleada
86,245 corpus weight
- habitat
habitat
86,241 corpus weight
- Hand
Hand
86,240 corpus weight
- hell
hell
86,239 corpus weight
- hepatite
hepatite
86,238 corpus weight
- implacável
implacável
86,235 corpus weight
What this shows “Hand” 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 | Hand |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /hant/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #13,761 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “Hand”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around Hand (IPA /hant/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #13,761 among 409 “H” headwords. Dominant gloss: "mão".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for Hand, with forms such as "ahnd", "hadn", and "handd". 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, "hat", "hão", "hon", 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 any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Portuguese form is Hand, spelled H-A-N-D.
Definition
- 1mão
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ahnd
- hadn
- handd
- hannd
- hhand
- hnad
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Hand - 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
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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).