medley
The verdict
“medley” has 9 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #31,452. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #31,452
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,087
- “M” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - sequência musical composta de pequenos trechos de músicas diferentes
Corpus desk
Index PT-medley · medley · Portuguese
medley · rank #31,452 · 9 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #31,452
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,087
- PHOTO-FINISH mascarar
Nearest frequency peer: mascarar (-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 “medley”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- lit
lit
68,568 corpus weight
- manchar
manchar
68,558 corpus weight
- mascarar
mascarar
68,552 corpus weight
- medley
medley
68,549 corpus weight
- Nilópolis
Nilópolis
68,535 corpus weight
- nocivo
nocivo
68,534 corpus weight
What this shows “medley” está entre estes pares FrequencyWords; a profundidade de typo mede-se à parte no gráfico de distância de edição.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | medley |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #31,452 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “medley”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around medley, anoun. Corpus frequency is #31,452 among 1,087 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for medley, with forms such as "emdley", "mdeley", and "meddley". 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, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 medley, spelled M-E-D-L-E-Y.
Definition
- 1sequência musical composta de pequenos trechos de músicas diferentes
- 2mistura, sortimento
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how medley appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Medley of fruits (in a juice)
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- emdley
- mdeley
- meddley
- medely
- medleyy
- medlley
- medlye
- meldey
- mmedley
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of medley - 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 (9 here; floor ≥5).