leaves
/liːvz/ ouvir^(fonte ?)
The verdict
“leaves” has 8 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #42,079. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #42,079
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 581
- “L” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - folhas
Corpus desk
Index PT-leaves · leaves · Portuguese
leaves · rank #42,079 · 8 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #42,079
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 581
- PHOTO-FINISH legitimado
Nearest frequency peer: legitimado (+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 “leaves”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- junio
junio
57,932 corpus weight
- klara
klara
57,927 corpus weight
- leaves
leaves
57,922 corpus weight
- legitimado
legitimado
57,921 corpus weight
- lhama
lhama
57,917 corpus weight
- macieira
macieira
57,910 corpus weight
What this shows “leaves” 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 | leaves |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /liːvz/ ouvir^(fonte ?) |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #42,079 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “leaves”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around leaves (IPA /liːvz/ ouvir^(fonte ?)), anoun. Corpus frequency is #42,079 among 581 “L” headwords. Dominant gloss: "folhas".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for leaves, with forms such as "elaves", "laeves", and "leaevs". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "leve", "levas", "leave", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Portuguese form is leaves, spelled L-E-A-V-E-S.
Definition
- 1folhas
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- elaves
- laeves
- leaevs
- leavess
- leavse
- leavves
- levaes
- lleaves
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of leaves - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 "leaves", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).