hard
The verdict
“hard” has 6 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #7,418. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #7,418
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 409
- “H” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - condição de atuação difícil, dura
Corpus desk
Index PT-hard · hard · Portuguese
hard · rank #7,418 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,418
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 409
- PHOTO-FINISH have
Nearest frequency peer: have (+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 “hard”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- fixo
fixo
92,592 corpus weight
- freguesia
freguesia
92,589 corpus weight
- funeral
funeral
92,587 corpus weight
- gentil
gentil
92,586 corpus weight
- hard
hard
92,583 corpus weight
- have
have
92,582 corpus weight
What this shows “hard” 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 | hard |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #7,418 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “hard”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around hard, anoun. Corpus frequency is #7,418 among 409 “H” headwords. Dominant gloss: "condição de atuação difícil, dura".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for hard, with forms such as "ahrd", "hadr", and "hardd". 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, "her", "hat", "hora", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Portuguese form is hard, spelled H-A-R-D.
Definition
- 1condição de atuação difícil, dura
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how hard appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ahrd
- hadr
- hardd
- harrd
- hhard
- hrad
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of hard - 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).