medo
AFI: /'me.du/
The verdict
“medo” has 5 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #379. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #379
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,087
- “M” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - que pertence ou se refere à Média
Corpus desk
Index PT-medo · medo · Portuguese
medo · rank #379 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #379
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,087
- PHOTO-FINISH livro
Nearest frequency peer: livro (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “medo”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- início
início
99,624 corpus weight
- livro
livro
99,623 corpus weight
- medo
medo
99,622 corpus weight
- passar
passar
99,621 corpus weight
- relação
relação
99,620 corpus weight
- Tal
Tal
99,619 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “medo” sits against the nearest ranked Portuguese headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | medo |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | AFI: /'me.du/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #379 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “medo” sits in Portuguese frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around medo (IPA AFI: /'me.du/), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #379 among 1,087 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "que pertence ou se refere à Média".
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for medo, with forms such as "emdo", "mdeo", and "meddo". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "mo", "meu", "mês", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 medo, spelled M-E-D-O.
Definition
- 1que pertence ou se refere à Média
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- emdo
- mdeo
- meddo
- meod
- mmedo
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of medo - 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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of September 3, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "medo", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).
What to do next
You've looked up "medo". Here's where to go from here.
- "medo" maps to 20 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "mo". View pair
- 5 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
- Usage frequency rank #379 among Portuguese headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
- Browse more Portuguese words in the "M" letter cohort. M–Z browse
PlainSpell is a reference corpus, not spelling advice. Verify unusual forms in context.
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.