litro
/ˈli.tɾu/
The verdict
“litro” has 7 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #14,180. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #14,180
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 581
- “L” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - unidade de medida de volume que obedece ao sistema métrico decimal e é aceita pelo sistema internacional de unidades
Corpus desk
Index PT-litro · litro · Portuguese
litro · rank #14,180 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,180
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 581
- PHOTO-FINISH luva
Nearest frequency peer: luva (+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 “litro”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- Leiria
Leiria
85,825 corpus weight
- litro
litro
85,821 corpus weight
- luva
luva
85,819 corpus weight
- Marion
Marion
85,818 corpus weight
- mendigo
mendigo
85,816 corpus weight
- mercê
mercê
85,815 corpus weight
What this shows “litro” 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 | litro |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈli.tɾu/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #14,180 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “litro”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around litro (IPA /ˈli.tɾu/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #14,180 among 581 “L” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for litro, with forms such as "iltro", "lirto", and "litor". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "lixo", "luto", "livro", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 litro, spelled L-I-T-R-O.
Definition
- 1unidade de medida de volume que obedece ao sistema métrico decimal e é aceita pelo sistema internacional de unidades
- 2garrafa
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- iltro
- lirto
- litor
- litrro
- littro
- llitro
- ltiro
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of litro - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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
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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).