late
The verdict
“late” has 5 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #12,276. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #12,276
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 581
- “L” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - terceira pessoa do presente do indicativo do verbo latir
Corpus desk
Index PT-late · late · Portuguese
late · rank #12,276 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #12,276
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-MID 581
- PHOTO-FINISH liberty
Nearest frequency peer: liberty (+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 “late”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- jeitinho
jeitinho
87,728 corpus weight
- late
late
87,725 corpus weight
- liberty
liberty
87,723 corpus weight
- libra
libra
87,722 corpus weight
- linear
linear
87,720 corpus weight
- London
London
87,719 corpus weight
What this shows “late” 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 | late |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #12,276 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “late”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around late, averb. Corpus frequency is #12,276 among 581 “L” headwords. Dominant gloss: "terceira pessoa do presente do indicativo do verbo latir".
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for late, with forms such as "alte", "laet", and "latte". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "le", "lhe", "let", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Portuguese form is late, spelled L-A-T-E.
Definition
- 1terceira pessoa do presente do indicativo do verbo latir
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how late appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
O cachorro late ferozmente.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- alte
- laet
- latte
- llate
- ltae
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of late - 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
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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 (5 here; floor ≥5).