língua
/ˈlĩ.ɡwɐ/
The verdict
“língua” has 8 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #536. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #536
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 581
- “L” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - órgão da boca, auxiliar da mastigação e deglutição e responsável pela articulação dos sons; órgão da fala
Corpus desk
Index PT-lingua · língua · Portuguese
língua · rank #536 · 8 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #536
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 581
- PHOTO-FINISH livre
Nearest frequency peer: livre (-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 “língua”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- bastante
bastante
99,469 corpus weight
- Jesus
Jesus
99,468 corpus weight
- jovem
jovem
99,467 corpus weight
- livre
livre
99,466 corpus weight
- língua
língua
99,465 corpus weight
- olhos
olhos
99,463 corpus weight
What this shows “língua” 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 | língua |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈlĩ.ɡwɐ/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #536 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “língua”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around língua (IPA /ˈlĩ.ɡwɐ/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #536 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 língua, with forms such as "llíngua", "lnígua", and "lígnua". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "linha", "línguas", "linguiça", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 língua, spelled L-Í-N-G-U-A.
Definition
- 1órgão da boca, auxiliar da mastigação e deglutição e responsável pela articulação dos sons; órgão da fala
- 2linguagem, idioma, conjunto de expressões sonoras com um significado convencional partilhado por um grupo de seres humanos
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how língua appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
O professor falava três línguas diferentes.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- llíngua
- lnígua
- lígnua
- língau
- línggua
- línngua
- línuga
- ílngua
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of língua - 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 "língua", 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).