manual
/mɐ.ˈnwaɫ/
The verdict
“manual” has 8 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #3,784. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #3,784
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,087
- “M” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 12
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - que diz respeito à mão
Corpus desk
Index PT-manual · manual · Portuguese
manual · rank #3,784 · 8 variants · 12 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #3,784
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 12 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,087
- PHOTO-FINISH luxo
Nearest frequency peer: luxo (-3 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 “manual”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- Lindas
Lindas
96,222 corpus weight
- luxo
luxo
96,220 corpus weight
- manual
manual
96,217 corpus weight
- neve
neve
96,214 corpus weight
- ocupado
ocupado
96,213 corpus weight
- oficina
oficina
96,212 corpus weight
What this shows “manual” 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 | manual |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /mɐ.ˈnwaɫ/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #3,784 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “manual”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around manual (IPA /mɐ.ˈnwaɫ/), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #3,784 among 1,087 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for manual, with forms such as "amnual", "manaul", and "mannual". 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 12 confusable-pair relationships, "Manuel", "mental", "mensal", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
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 manual, spelled M-A-N-U-A-L.
Definition
- 1que diz respeito à mão
- 2feito com intervenção humana
- 3que se manuseia facilmente
- 4portátil
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- amnual
- manaul
- mannual
- manuall
- manula
- maunal
- mmanual
- mnaual
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of manual - 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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).