malagueta
/mɐ.lɐ.ˈɡe.tɐ/
The verdict
“malagueta” has 12 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #47,477. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #47,477
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,087
- “M” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - pimento pequeno, oblongado, picante e aromático utilizado como condimento
Corpus desk
Index PT-malagueta · malagueta · Portuguese
malagueta · rank #47,477 · 12 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #47,477
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,087
- PHOTO-FINISH lóbulo
Nearest frequency peer: lóbulo (-8 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 “malagueta”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- ludo
ludo
52,536 corpus weight
- luminária
luminária
52,534 corpus weight
- lóbulo
lóbulo
52,532 corpus weight
- malagueta
malagueta
52,524 corpus weight
- melanoma
melanoma
52,516 corpus weight
- mens
mens
52,514 corpus weight
What this shows “malagueta” está entre estes pares FrequencyWords; a profundidade de typo mede-se à parte no gráfico de distância de edição.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | malagueta |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /mɐ.lɐ.ˈɡe.tɐ/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #47,477 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “malagueta”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around malagueta (IPA /mɐ.lɐ.ˈɡe.tɐ/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #47,477 among 1,087 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for malagueta, with forms such as "amlagueta", "maalgueta", and "malageuta". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Portuguese form is malagueta, spelled M-A-L-A-G-U-E-T-A.
Definition
- 1pimento pequeno, oblongado, picante e aromático utilizado como condimento
- 2malagueta-piripiri - Capsicum frutescens
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- amlagueta
- maalgueta
- malageuta
- malaggueta
- malagueat
- malaguetta
- malagutea
- malaugeta
- malgaueta
- mallagueta
- mlaagueta
- mmalagueta
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of malagueta - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 "malagueta", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).