impulso
/ĩ.ˈpuɫ.su/
The verdict
“impulso” has 10 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #5,748. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #5,748
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 938
- “I” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - desejo repentino de fazer algo (sem pensar nas consequências)
Corpus desk
Index PT-impulso · impulso · Portuguese
impulso · rank #5,748 · 10 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,748
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 938
- PHOTO-FINISH infecção
Nearest frequency peer: infecção (+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 “impulso”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- gozar
gozar
94,259 corpus weight
- gratuitamen…
gratuitamente
94,258 corpus weight
- guitarra
guitarra
94,257 corpus weight
- happy
happy
94,256 corpus weight
- impulso
impulso
94,253 corpus weight
- infecção
infecção
94,252 corpus weight
What this shows “impulso” 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 | impulso |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ĩ.ˈpuɫ.su/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #5,748 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “impulso”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around impulso (IPA /ĩ.ˈpuɫ.su/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #5,748 among 938 “I” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for impulso, with forms such as "immpulso", "impluso", and "imppulso". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "impuro", "impulsivo", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists 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 impulso, spelled I-M-P-U-L-S-O.
Definition
- 1desejo repentino de fazer algo (sem pensar nas consequências)
- 2força ou estimulação repentina
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how impulso appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Passei pela vitrine e tive o impulso de comprar o sapato.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- immpulso
- impluso
- imppulso
- impullso
- impulos
- impulsso
- impuslo
- imuplso
- ipmulso
- mipulso
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of impulso - 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 "impulso", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).