Instrumental
/ɪnstʀumɛnˈtaːl/
The verdict
“Instrumental” has 19 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #13,959. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #13,959
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 938
- “I” headwords
- 19
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - caso instrumental
Corpus desk
Index PT-instrumental · Instrumental · Portuguese
Instrumental · rank #13,959 · 19 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #13,959
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 19 variants
- BOOK-MID 938
- PHOTO-FINISH honrado
Nearest frequency peer: honrado (-4 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 “Instrumental”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- habilitação
habilitação
86,051 corpus weight
- half
half
86,049 corpus weight
- honrado
honrado
86,046 corpus weight
- Instrumental
Instrumental
86,042 corpus weight
- iron
iron
86,038 corpus weight
- lira
lira
86,033 corpus weight
What this shows “Instrumental” 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 | Instrumental |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ɪnstʀumɛnˈtaːl/ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #13,959 |
| Misspellings tracked | 19 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “Instrumental”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 19 spelling variants around Instrumental (IPA /ɪnstʀumɛnˈtaːl/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #13,959 among 938 “I” headwords. Dominant gloss: "caso instrumental".
Our generated misspelling index lists 19 likely wrong-spelling variants for Instrumental, with forms such as "innstrumental", "insrtumental", and "insstrumental". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "instrumento", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 Instrumental, spelled I-N-S-T-R-U-M-E-N-T-A-L.
Definition
- 1caso instrumental
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- innstrumental
- insrtumental
- insstrumental
- instrmuental
- instrrumental
- instruemntal
- instrumenatl
- instrumenntal
- instrumentall
- instrumentla
- instrumenttal
- instrumetnal
- instrummental
- instrumnetal
- insttrumental
- insturmental
- intsrumental
- isntrumental
- nistrumental
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Instrumental - 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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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Instrumental", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (19 here; floor ≥5).