impossible
/ɛ̃.pɔ.sibl/
The verdict
“impossible” has 13 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #35,192. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #35,192
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 938
- “I” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - impossível
Corpus desk
Index PT-impossible · impossible · Portuguese
impossible · rank #35,192 · 13 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #35,192
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 938
- PHOTO-FINISH imutável
Nearest frequency peer: imutável (+2 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 “impossible”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- homen
homen
64,814 corpus weight
- homicida
homicida
64,813 corpus weight
- impossible
impossible
64,809 corpus weight
- imutável
imutável
64,807 corpus weight
- inacabado
inacabado
64,806 corpus weight
- ingerência
ingerência
64,800 corpus weight
What this shows “impossible” está entre estes pares FrequencyWords; a profundidade de typo mede-se à parte no gráfico de distância de edição.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | impossible |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ɛ̃.pɔ.sibl/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #35,192 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “impossible”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around impossible (IPA /ɛ̃.pɔ.sibl/), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #35,192 among 938 “I” headwords. Dominant gloss: "impossível".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for impossible, with forms such as "immpossible", "imopssible", and "imposible". 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. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Portuguese form is impossible, spelled I-M-P-O-S-S-I-B-L-E.
Definition
- 1impossível
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- immpossible
- imopssible
- imposible
- imposisble
- impossbile
- impossibble
- impossibel
- impossiblle
- impossilbe
- imppossible
- impsosible
- ipmossible
- mipossible
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of impossible - 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 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).