kind
The verdict
“kind” has 6 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #18,627. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #18,627
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 95
- “K” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - terno, gentil, bacana
Corpus desk
Index PT-kind · kind · Portuguese
kind · rank #18,627 · 6 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-MID #18,627
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 95
- PHOTO-FINISH Kátia
Nearest frequency peer: Kátia (+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 “kind”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- infração
infração
81,381 corpus weight
- kind
kind
81,374 corpus weight
- Kátia
Kátia
81,373 corpus weight
- linguístico
linguístico
81,370 corpus weight
- liquidação
liquidação
81,369 corpus weight
- liturgia
liturgia
81,368 corpus weight
What this shows “kind” 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 | kind |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #18,627 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “kind”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around kind, anadjective. Corpus frequency is #18,627 among 95 “K” headwords. Dominant gloss: "terno, gentil, bacana".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for kind, with forms such as "iknd", "kidn", and "kindd". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "king", "kiss", "kung", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
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 kind, spelled K-I-N-D.
Definition
- 1terno, gentil, bacana
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how kind appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
They told me to be kind, I really tried it hard
Synonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- iknd
- kidn
- kindd
- kinnd
- kkind
- knid
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of kind - 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 "kind", 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).