melhoria
/mɨ.ʎu.ˈɾi.ɐ/
The verdict
“melhoria” has 11 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #5,653. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #5,653
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,087
- “M” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - recuperação do estado anterior
Corpus desk
Index PT-melhoria · melhoria · Portuguese
melhoria · rank #5,653 · 11 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,653
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,087
- PHOTO-FINISH mestrado
Nearest frequency peer: mestrado (+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 “melhoria”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- Maracanã
Maracanã
94,351 corpus weight
- melhoria
melhoria
94,348 corpus weight
- mestrado
mestrado
94,347 corpus weight
- mineiro
mineiro
94,346 corpus weight
- mobilidade
mobilidade
94,345 corpus weight
- mortas
mortas
94,342 corpus weight
What this shows “melhoria” 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 | melhoria |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /mɨ.ʎu.ˈɾi.ɐ/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #5,653 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “melhoria”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around melhoria (IPA /mɨ.ʎu.ˈɾi.ɐ/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #5,653 among 1,087 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for melhoria, with forms such as "emlhoria", "mehloria", and "melhhoria". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "memória", "melodia", "melhor", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Portuguese form is melhoria, spelled M-E-L-H-O-R-I-A.
Definition
- 1recuperação do estado anterior
- 2aumento na qualidade
- 3superioridade
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how melhoria appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ocorreu uma melhoria daquele galo doente.
Faremos uma melhoria no teto para não ouvirmos mais o caminhar no andar superior.
Synonyms
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- emlhoria
- mehloria
- melhhoria
- melhoira
- melhorai
- melhorria
- melhroia
- mellhoria
- melohria
- mlehoria
- mmelhoria
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of melhoria - 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.
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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "melhoria", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).