John
The verdict
“John” has 6 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #898. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #898
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 196
- “J” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 14
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - prenome masculino, equivalente ao português João
Corpus desk
Index PT-john · John · Portuguese
John · rank #898 · 6 variants · 14 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #898
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-MID 14 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 196
- PHOTO-FINISH mortos
Nearest frequency peer: mortos (+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 “John”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- fonte
fonte
99,107 corpus weight
- graças
graças
99,106 corpus weight
- John
John
99,103 corpus weight
- mortos
mortos
99,102 corpus weight
- notícias
notícias
99,101 corpus weight
- redes
redes
99,099 corpus weight
What this shows “John” 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 | John |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #898 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 14 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “John”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around John, anoun. Corpus frequency is #898 among 196 “J” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for John, with forms such as "jhon", "jjohn", and "johhn". 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 14 confusable-pair relationships, "joy", "José", "Juan", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Portuguese form is John, spelled J-O-H-N.
Definition
- 1prenome masculino, equivalente ao português João
- 2João
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how John appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- jhon
- jjohn
- johhn
- johnn
- jonh
- ojhn
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of John - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "John", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).