marsh
/mɑɹʃ/
The verdict
“marsh” has 8 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #25,040. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #25,040
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,087
- “M” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - brejo
Corpus desk
Index PT-marsh · marsh · Portuguese
marsh · rank #25,040 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #25,040
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,087
- PHOTO-FINISH Mann
Nearest frequency peer: Mann (-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 “marsh”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- Jugoslávia
Jugoslávia
74,976 corpus weight
- legalizar
legalizar
74,971 corpus weight
- Mann
Mann
74,962 corpus weight
- marsh
marsh
74,961 corpus weight
- mataria
mataria
74,959 corpus weight
- merenda
merenda
74,953 corpus weight
What this shows “marsh” 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 | marsh |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /mɑɹʃ/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #25,040 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “marsh”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around marsh (IPA /mɑɹʃ/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #25,040 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 marsh, with forms such as "amrsh", "marhs", and "marrsh". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "mas", "math", "mask", 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 spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Portuguese form is marsh, spelled M-A-R-S-H.
Definition
- 1brejo
- 2paul
- 3pântano
- 4charco
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- amrsh
- marhs
- marrsh
- marshh
- marssh
- masrh
- mmarsh
- mrash
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of marsh - 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 "marsh", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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 (8 here; floor ≥5).