Jamaica
/ʒə.'mai̯.kə/
The verdict
“Jamaica” has 9 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #9,208. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #9,208
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 196
- “J” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Jamaica
Corpus desk
Index PT-jamaica · Jamaica · Portuguese
Jamaica · rank #9,208 · 9 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,208
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 196
- PHOTO-FINISH irregular
Nearest frequency peer: irregular (-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 “Jamaica”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- incapacidade
incapacidade
90,799 corpus weight
- indenização
indenização
90,798 corpus weight
- instabilida…
instabilidade
90,797 corpus weight
- irregular
irregular
90,795 corpus weight
- Jamaica
Jamaica
90,793 corpus weight
- latim
latim
90,791 corpus weight
What this shows “Jamaica” 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 | Jamaica |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ʒə.'mai̯.kə/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #9,208 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “Jamaica”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around Jamaica (IPA /ʒə.'mai̯.kə/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #9,208 among 196 “J” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Jamaica".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for Jamaica, with forms such as "ajmaica", "jaamica", and "jamacia". 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, "jamais", "jamaicano", 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 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 Jamaica, spelled J-A-M-A-I-C-A.
Definition
- 1Jamaica
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ajmaica
- jaamica
- jamacia
- jamaiac
- jamaicca
- jamiaca
- jammaica
- jjamaica
- jmaaica
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Jamaica - 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 "Jamaica", 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 (9 here; floor ≥5).