lepra
The verdict
“lepra” has 7 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #38,788. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #38,788
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 581
- “L” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 15
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - na Antiguidade, designação de diversas doenças de pele, especialmente as de caráter crônico ou contagioso
Corpus desk
Index PT-lepra · lepra · Portuguese
lepra · rank #38,788 · 7 variants · 15 confusables
- FREQ-MID #38,788
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 15 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 581
- PHOTO-FINISH leonino
Nearest frequency peer: leonino (-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 “lepra”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- kosher
kosher
61,226 corpus weight
- leonino
leonino
61,214 corpus weight
- lepra
lepra
61,213 corpus weight
- lombada
lombada
61,205 corpus weight
- lusófono
lusófono
61,202 corpus weight
- Messer
Messer
61,191 corpus weight
What this shows “lepra” 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 | lepra |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #38,788 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 15 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “lepra”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around lepra, anoun. Corpus frequency is #38,788 among 581 “L” headwords. Wiktionary lists 6 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for lepra, with forms such as "elpra", "lepar", and "leppra". 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 15 confusable-pair relationships, "ler", "leva", "lira", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
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 lepra, spelled L-E-P-R-A.
Definition
- 1na Antiguidade, designação de diversas doenças de pele, especialmente as de caráter crônico ou contagioso
- 2o mesmo que hanseníase
- 3sarna de cachorro
- 4qualquer coisa cujos efeitos perniciosos e contagiosos são comparáveis aos da lepra
- 5pessoa má, imprestável
- 6jogador ruim, inábil
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how lepra appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
O laxismo é a lepra de nossa era.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- elpra
- lepar
- leppra
- leprra
- lerpa
- llepra
- lpera
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of lepra - 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 "lepra", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).