manivela
/mɐ.ni.ˈvɛ.lɐ/
The verdict
“manivela” has 11 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #43,528. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #43,528
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,087
- “M” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - peça de uma máquina, a que se dá movimento com a mão
Corpus desk
Index PT-manivela · manivela · Portuguese
manivela · rank #43,528 · 11 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #43,528
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,087
- PHOTO-FINISH macumba
Nearest frequency peer: macumba (-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 “manivela”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- macumba
macumba
56,481 corpus weight
- manivela
manivela
56,473 corpus weight
- mogno
mogno
56,459 corpus weight
- multibanco
multibanco
56,454 corpus weight
- muto
muto
56,452 corpus weight
- Nauru
Nauru
56,448 corpus weight
What this shows “manivela” está entre estes pares FrequencyWords; a profundidade de typo mede-se à parte no gráfico de distância de edição.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | manivela |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /mɐ.ni.ˈvɛ.lɐ/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #43,528 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “manivela”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around manivela (IPA /mɐ.ni.ˈvɛ.lɐ/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #43,528 among 1,087 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for manivela, with forms such as "amnivela", "mainvela", and "manievla". 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. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
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 manivela, spelled M-A-N-I-V-E-L-A.
Definition
- 1peça de uma máquina, a que se dá movimento com a mão
- 2peça de ferro ou madeira que, sujeita a qualquer força motriz, põe em movimento um engenho ou máquina
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- amnivela
- mainvela
- manievla
- maniveal
- manivella
- manivlea
- manivvela
- mannivela
- manviela
- mmanivela
- mnaivela
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of manivela - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "manivela", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).