lengua
The verdict
“lengua” has 8 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #49,560. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #49,560
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 581
- “L” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - língua
Corpus desk
Index PT-lengua · lengua · Portuguese
lengua · rank #49,560 · 8 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #49,560
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 581
- PHOTO-FINISH lesbianismo
Nearest frequency peer: lesbianismo (+2 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 “lengua”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- keeping
keeping
50,452 corpus weight
- Leben
Leben
50,445 corpus weight
- lengua
lengua
50,441 corpus weight
- lesbianismo
lesbianismo
50,439 corpus weight
- listra
listra
50,437 corpus weight
- loch
loch
50,435 corpus weight
What this shows “lengua” 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 | lengua |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #49,560 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “lengua”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around lengua, anoun. Corpus frequency is #49,560 among 581 “L” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for lengua, with forms such as "elngua", "legnua", and "lengau". 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, "lenha", "língua", "línguas", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Portuguese form is lengua, spelled L-E-N-G-U-A.
Definition
- 1língua
- 2idioma, língua
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how lengua appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
El que su boca no enfrena y su lengua no refrena, tarde o temprano sufrirá la pena.
Synonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- elngua
- legnua
- lengau
- lenggua
- lenngua
- lenuga
- llengua
- lnegua
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of lengua - 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 "lengua", 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).