melhoras

noun

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The verdict

“melhoras” has 12 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #15,856. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#15,856
frequency rank, Portuguese
1,087
“M” headwords
12
tracked misspellings
5
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - melhores condições, especialmente de saúde

Corpus desk

Index PT-melhoras · melhoras · Portuguese

melhoras · rank #15,856 · 12 variants · 5 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #15,856
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
  • VAR-MID 12 variants
  • BOOK-MID 1,087
  • PHOTO-FINISH Matias

Nearest frequency peer: Matias (-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 “melhoras”

Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho

corpus weight

What this shows “melhoras” está entre estes pares FrequencyWords; a profundidade de typo mede-se à parte no gráfico de distância de edição.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

melhoras vs melhores
88% similar
melhoras vs melhoria
75% similar
melhoras vs melhor
75% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for melhoras
PropertyValue
Headwordmelhoras
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
Letters8
Frequency rank#15,856
Misspellings tracked12
Confusable pairs5
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequência do íman ortográfico “melhoras”

Da esquerda para a direita: o pouco que carrega a fala diária, depois a cauda longa quase invisível.melhorascai aqui:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

A escala é logarítmica (cada marca ≈ 10× mais rara). Na mesma faixa de raridade aparecem “Matias” (#15,855), “marítimo” (#15,854), “mister” (#15,861). Entre 1,087 lemas com “M”, “melhoras” fica em #15,856. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 12 spelling variants around melhoras, anoun. Corpus frequency is #15,856 among 1,087 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "melhores condições, especialmente de saúde".

Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for melhoras, with forms such as "emlhoras", "mehloras", and "melhhoras". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "melhores", "melhoria", "melhor", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

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 melhoras, spelled M-E-L-H-O-R-A-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    melhores condições, especialmente de saúde

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how melhoras appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Antes de sair do hospital, desejou-me melhoras.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • emlhoras
  • mehloras
  • melhhoras
  • melhoars
  • melhorass
  • melhorras
  • melhorsa
  • melhroas
  • mellhoras
  • melohras
  • mlehoras
  • mmelhoras

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of melhoras - 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.

emlhoras2mehloras2melhhoras1melhoars2melhorass1melhorras1melhorsa2melhroas2
Edit distance from "melhoras"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "melhoras"?
"melhoras" is spelled M-E-L-H-O-R-A-S.
What does "melhoras" mean?
As a noun, "melhoras" means: melhores condições, especialmente de saúde
What words are commonly confused with "melhoras"?
"melhoras" is commonly confused with "melhores", "melhoria", "melhor". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "melhoras" come from?
"melhoras" is a Portuguese word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "melhoras", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

marítimo#15,854cúmplice#15,779travesti#15,948banquete#15,743

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).

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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list