horn
/hɔɹn/
The verdict
“horn” has 6 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #25,004. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #25,004
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 409
- “H” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - chifre
Corpus desk
Index PT-horn · horn · Portuguese
horn · rank #25,004 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #25,004
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 409
- PHOTO-FINISH Guillaume
Nearest frequency peer: Guillaume (-3 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 “horn”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- genialidade
genialidade
75,005 corpus weight
- gola
gola
75,002 corpus weight
- Guillaume
Guillaume
75,000 corpus weight
- horn
horn
74,997 corpus weight
- indonésio
indonésio
74,989 corpus weight
- irreal
irreal
74,981 corpus weight
What this shows “horn” 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 | horn |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /hɔɹn/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #25,004 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “horn”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around horn (IPA /hɔɹn/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #25,004 among 409 “H” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for horn, with forms such as "hhorn", "honr", and "hornn". 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, "hot", "hour", "hurt", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct Portuguese form is horn, spelled H-O-R-N.
Definition
- 1chifre
- 2buzina
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- hhorn
- honr
- hornn
- horrn
- hron
- ohrn
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of horn - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "horn", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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).