legista
/lɨ.ˈʒiʃ.tɐ/
The verdict
“legista” has 10 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #23,385. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #23,385
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 581
- “L” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - referente ao médico legista ou ao legismo
Corpus desk
Index PT-legista · legista · Portuguese
legista · rank #23,385 · 10 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #23,385
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 581
- PHOTO-FINISH lide
Nearest frequency peer: lide (+3 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 “legista”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- industry
industry
76,631 corpus weight
- internacion…
internacionalização
76,624 corpus weight
- legista
legista
76,616 corpus weight
- lide
lide
76,613 corpus weight
- magnata
magnata
76,605 corpus weight
- mamão
mamão
76,602 corpus weight
What this shows “legista” 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 | legista |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /lɨ.ˈʒiʃ.tɐ/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #23,385 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “legista”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around legista (IPA /lɨ.ˈʒiʃ.tɐ/), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #23,385 among 581 “L” headwords. Dominant gloss: "referente ao médico legista ou ao legismo".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for legista, with forms such as "elgista", "leggista", and "legisat". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "lista", "lagosta", "legislar", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Portuguese form is legista, spelled L-E-G-I-S-T-A.
Definition
- 1referente ao médico legista ou ao legismo
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- elgista
- leggista
- legisat
- legissta
- legistta
- legitsa
- legsita
- leigsta
- lgeista
- llegista
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of legista - 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 "legista", 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).