indispensável
/ĩ.diʃ.pẽ.ˈsa.vɛɫ/
The verdict
“indispensável” has 20 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #13,769. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #13,769
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,526
- “I” headwords
- 20
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - essencial, imprescindível
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | indispensável |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ĩ.diʃ.pẽ.ˈsa.vɛɫ/ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #13,769 |
| Misspellings tracked | 20 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “indispensável” sits in Portuguese frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 20 spelling variants around indispensável (IPA /ĩ.diʃ.pẽ.ˈsa.vɛɫ/), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #13,769 among 1,526 “I” headwords. Dominant gloss: "essencial, imprescindível".
Our generated misspelling index lists 20 likely wrong-spelling variants for indispensável, with forms such as "idnispensável", "inddispensável", and "indipsensável". 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. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is indispensável, spelled I-N-D-I-S-P-E-N-S-Á-V-E-L.
Definition
- 1essencial, imprescindível
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: idnispensável,inddispensável,indipsensável,indisepnsável,indispennsável,indispenssável,indispensváel,indispensáevl,indispensávell,indispensávle,indispensávvel,indispenásvel,indispesnável,indispnesável,indisppensável,indisspensável,indsipensável,inidspensável,inndispensável,nidispensável
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of indispensável - 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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Using “indispensável”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is I-N-D-I-S-P-E-N-S-Á-V-E-L - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ĩ.diʃ.pẽ.ˈsa.vɛɫ/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.