kebab
/kɪˈbæb/
The verdict
“kebab” has 7 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #49,548. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #49,548
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 95
- “K” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - quebabe
Corpus desk
Index PT-kebab · kebab · Portuguese
kebab · rank #49,548 · 7 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #49,548
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 95
- PHOTO-FINISH keeping
Nearest frequency peer: keeping (+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 “kebab”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- interinamen…
interinamente
50,467 corpus weight
- interpessoal
interpessoal
50,466 corpus weight
- kebab
kebab
50,453 corpus weight
- keeping
keeping
50,452 corpus weight
- Leben
Leben
50,445 corpus weight
- lengua
lengua
50,441 corpus weight
What this shows “kebab” está entre estes pares FrequencyWords; a profundidade de typo mede-se à parte no gráfico de distância de edição.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | kebab |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /kɪˈbæb/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #49,548 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “kebab”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around kebab (IPA /kɪˈbæb/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #49,548 among 95 “K” headwords. Dominant gloss: "quebabe".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for kebab, with forms such as "ekbab", "kbeab", and "keabb". 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 is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
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 kebab, spelled K-E-B-A-B.
Definition
- 1quebabe
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ekbab
- kbeab
- keabb
- kebabb
- kebba
- kebbab
- kkebab
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of kebab - 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 "kebab", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).