lateral
/lɐ.tɨ.ˈɾaɫ/
The verdict
“lateral” has 10 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #4,158. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #4,158
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 581
- “L” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - que está ao lado ou que a ele se refere
Corpus desk
Index PT-lateral · lateral · Portuguese
lateral · rank #4,158 · 10 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #4,158
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 581
- PHOTO-FINISH largo
Nearest frequency peer: largo (-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 “lateral”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- febre
febre
95,849 corpus weight
- funcionário
funcionário
95,847 corpus weight
- largo
largo
95,844 corpus weight
- lateral
lateral
95,843 corpus weight
- negativo
negativo
95,837 corpus weight
- nestes
nestes
95,836 corpus weight
What this shows “lateral” 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 | lateral |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /lɐ.tɨ.ˈɾaɫ/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #4,158 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “lateral”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around lateral (IPA /lɐ.tɨ.ˈɾaɫ/), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #4,158 among 581 “L” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for lateral, with forms such as "alteral", "laetral", and "latearl". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "liberal", "literal", "later", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 lateral, spelled L-A-T-E-R-A-L.
Definition
- 1que está ao lado ou que a ele se refere
- 2marginal, realizado à parte:
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how lateral appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Num campo de jogos, as linhas laterais são perpendiculares às finais.
As questões laterais eram discretamente tratadas.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- alteral
- laetral
- latearl
- laterall
- laterla
- laterral
- latreal
- latteral
- llateral
- ltaeral
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of lateral - 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 "lateral", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).