knife
/naɪf/
The verdict
“knife” has 7 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #37,393. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #37,393
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 95
- “K” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - faca, naifa
Corpus desk
Index PT-knife · knife · Portuguese
knife · rank #37,393 · 7 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #37,393
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 95
- PHOTO-FINISH livreto
Nearest frequency peer: livreto (+7 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 “knife”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- instrumenti…
instrumentista
62,624 corpus weight
- knife
knife
62,608 corpus weight
- livreto
livreto
62,601 corpus weight
- ló
ló
62,594 corpus weight
- maquinista
maquinista
62,588 corpus weight
- massacrar
massacrar
62,586 corpus weight
What this shows “knife” está entre estes pares FrequencyWords; a profundidade de typo mede-se à parte no gráfico de distância de edição.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | knife |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /naɪf/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #37,393 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “knife”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around knife (IPA /naɪf/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #37,393 among 95 “K” headwords. Dominant gloss: "faca, naifa".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for knife, with forms such as "kinfe", "kknife", and "knfie". 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. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Portuguese form is knife, spelled K-N-I-F-E.
Definition
- 1faca, naifa
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- kinfe
- kknife
- knfie
- knief
- kniffe
- knnife
- nkife
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of knife - 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
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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).