ministro
The verdict
“ministro” has 12 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #760. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #760
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,087
- “M” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - membro do Governo que dirige um ministério
Corpus desk
Index PT-ministro · ministro · Portuguese
ministro · rank #760 · 12 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #760
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,087
- PHOTO-FINISH mercado
Nearest frequency peer: mercado (-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 “ministro”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- entender
entender
99,244 corpus weight
- mercado
mercado
99,242 corpus weight
- ministro
ministro
99,241 corpus weight
- mãos
mãos
99,240 corpus weight
- resposta
resposta
99,239 corpus weight
- serão
serão
99,238 corpus weight
What this shows “ministro” 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 | ministro |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #760 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “ministro”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around ministro, anoun. Corpus frequency is #760 among 1,087 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for ministro, with forms such as "imnistro", "miinstro", and "minisrto". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "monstro", "Minister", "ministrar", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Portuguese form is ministro, spelled M-I-N-I-S-T-R-O.
Definition
- 1membro do Governo que dirige um ministério
- 2designação de certos representantes diplomáticos
- 3aquele a quem incumbe um cargo ou função
- 4auxiliar, executor, servidor
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how ministro appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
“Eles não devem estar lá fazendo turismo”, diz o deputado Aldo Rebelo (PC do B-SP), que acompanha o drama da reserva dos cintas-largas desde o grande massacre de abril de 2004, quando era ministro da Articulação Política.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- imnistro
- miinstro
- minisrto
- minisstro
- ministor
- ministrro
- ministtro
- minitsro
- minnistro
- minsitro
- mministro
- mniistro
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of ministro - 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 "ministro", 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 (12 here; floor ≥5).