iluminar
/i.lu.mi.ˈnaɾ/
The verdict
“iluminar” has 11 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #14,612. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #14,612
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 938
- “I” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - lançar luz sobre
Corpus desk
Index PT-iluminar · iluminar · Portuguese
iluminar · rank #14,612 · 11 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,612
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 938
- PHOTO-FINISH imitação
Nearest frequency peer: imitação (+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 “iluminar”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- grandioso
grandioso
85,398 corpus weight
- Heitor
Heitor
85,395 corpus weight
- iluminar
iluminar
85,389 corpus weight
- imitação
imitação
85,388 corpus weight
- inerente
inerente
85,385 corpus weight
- iniciação
iniciação
85,383 corpus weight
What this shows “iluminar” 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 | iluminar |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /i.lu.mi.ˈnaɾ/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #14,612 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “iluminar”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around iluminar (IPA /i.lu.mi.ˈnaɾ/), averb. Corpus frequency is #14,612 among 938 “I” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for iluminar, with forms such as "illuminar", "ilmuinar", and "iluimnar". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "iluminado", "iluminada", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 iluminar, spelled I-L-U-M-I-N-A-R.
Definition
- 1lançar luz sobre
- 2retirar das trevas
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- illuminar
- ilmuinar
- iluimnar
- ilumianr
- iluminarr
- iluminnar
- iluminra
- ilumminar
- ilumniar
- iulminar
- liuminar
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of iluminar - 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 "iluminar", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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 (11 here; floor ≥5).