letter

noun

Letters

6 characters

Frequency Rank

#28,646

in Portuguese word usage

Misspellings

7

tracked variants

Confusables

5

similar word pairs

letter is aPortuguesenoun. It means: carta Often confused with leste and leite.

Key facts for letter
PropertyValue
Headwordletter
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
Letters6
Frequency rank#28,646
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs5
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of letter in Portuguese word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for letter is 6 letters long, classified as anoun. Corpus data places it at rank #28,646 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "carta".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for letter, with forms such as "eltter", "leter", and "letetr". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "leste", "leite", "lente", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Portuguese form is letter, spelled L-E-T-T-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    carta

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: eltter,leter,letetr,letterr,lettre,lletter,lteter

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for letter

Misspelling Variants of "letter"

eltter6leter5letetr6letterr7lettre6lletter7lteter6
Misspelling Variants of "letter"

Frequency rank: #28,646 in Portuguese

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "letter"?
"letter" is spelled L-E-T-T-E-R.
What does "letter" mean?
As a noun, "letter" means: carta
What words are commonly confused with "letter"?
"letter" is commonly confused with "leste", "leite", "lente". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "letter" come from?
"letter" is a Portuguese word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
Is PlainSpell free to use?
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Nearby Portuguese words

Other entries that begin with the letter L in our Portuguese index:

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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.