muscular
The verdict
“muscular” has 12 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #10,404. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #10,404
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,087
- “M” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - relativo aos músculos
Corpus desk
Index PT-muscular · muscular · Portuguese
muscular · rank #10,404 · 12 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #10,404
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,087
- PHOTO-FINISH nacionalista
Nearest frequency peer: nacionalista (+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 “muscular”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- merecer
merecer
89,603 corpus weight
- modernidade
modernidade
89,601 corpus weight
- moinho
moinho
89,600 corpus weight
- muscular
muscular
89,597 corpus weight
- nacionalista
nacionalista
89,596 corpus weight
- penetração
penetração
89,590 corpus weight
What this shows “muscular” 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 | muscular |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #10,404 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “muscular”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around muscular, anadjective. Corpus frequency is #10,404 among 1,087 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for muscular, with forms such as "mmuscular", "msucular", and "mucsular". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "músculo", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored 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 muscular, spelled M-U-S-C-U-L-A-R.
Definition
- 1relativo aos músculos
- 2dependente ou afetado pelos músculos
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how muscular appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sofri um estiramento muscular, tenho que ficar de repouso.
Minha força muscular aumentou muito após eu ter começado a ir à academia de ginástica.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- mmuscular
- msucular
- mucsular
- musccular
- muscluar
- muscualr
- muscularr
- muscullar
- musculra
- musscular
- musuclar
- umscular
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of muscular - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "muscular", 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).