legítimo
The verdict
“legítimo” has 11 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #8,355. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #8,355
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 581
- “L” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - de acordo com a lei; legal
Corpus desk
Index PT-legitimo · legítimo · Portuguese
legítimo · rank #8,355 · 11 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #8,355
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 581
- PHOTO-FINISH livraria
Nearest frequency peer: livraria (+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 “legítimo”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- imaginário
imaginário
91,652 corpus weight
- inscrever
inscrever
91,651 corpus weight
- instância
instância
91,650 corpus weight
- legítimo
legítimo
91,646 corpus weight
- livraria
livraria
91,643 corpus weight
- mergulho
mergulho
91,640 corpus weight
What this shows “legítimo” 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 | legítimo |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #8,355 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “legítimo”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around legítimo, anadjective. Corpus frequency is #8,355 among 581 “L” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for legítimo, with forms such as "elgítimo", "leggítimo", and "legtíimo". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "legitimar", "legitimado", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 legítimo, spelled L-E-G-Í-T-I-M-O.
Definition
- 1de acordo com a lei; legal
- 2de acordo com as regras, padrões e princípios estabelecidos
- 3diz-se de criança nascida dentro de um casamento, de pais legalmente casados
- 4de acordo com as leis da lógica e da razão
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how legítimo appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
eu sou o legítimo herdeiro de meu pai
o rei Luís XIV teve vários filhos, alguns legítimos, outros nem tanto
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- elgítimo
- leggítimo
- legtíimo
- legíitmo
- legítimmo
- legítiom
- legítmio
- legíttimo
- leígtimo
- lgeítimo
- llegítimo
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of legítimo - 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 "legítimo", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).