lato
/ˈlatɔ/
The verdict
“lato” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #22,703) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #22,703
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 581
- “L” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - verão
Corpus desk
Index PT-lato · lato · Portuguese
lato · rank #22,703 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #22,703
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-MID 581
- PHOTO-FINISH lebre
Nearest frequency peer: lebre (+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.
Vizinhos de frequência do confusável “lato”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- ioga
ioga
77,306 corpus weight
- irado
irado
77,305 corpus weight
- javali
javali
77,303 corpus weight
- lato
lato
77,298 corpus weight
- lebre
lebre
77,297 corpus weight
- litígio
litígio
77,291 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “lato” face aos lemas portugueses mais próximos por rank, não um reprint da secretária de confusáveis.
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 | lato |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈlatɔ/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #22,703 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “lato”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for lato is neighbouring look-alikes ("ló", "leo", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced /ˈlatɔ/. Frequency #22,703 among 581 “L” headwords. Gloss: "verão".
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for lato, with forms such as "laot", "latto", and "llato". 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. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ló", "leo", "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 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 lato, spelled L-A-T-O.
Definition
- 1verão
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- laot
- latto
- llato
- ltao
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of lato - 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 "lato", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).