negativa
The verdict
“negativa” is a regularly-used Portuguese word, ranked #4,839 in Portuguese word frequency and used as a noun.
- #4,839
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 8
- letters
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - avaliação escolar com valor avaliativo inferior à media
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 | negativa |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #4,839 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “negativa” sits in Portuguese frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for negativa is 8 letters long, classified as a noun. Corpus data places it at rank #4,839 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "avaliação escolar com valor avaliativo inferior à media".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for negativa, with forms such as "engativa", "neagtiva", and "negaitva". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "negativo", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Portuguese form is negativa, spelled N-E-G-A-T-I-V-A.
Definition
- 1avaliação escolar com valor avaliativo inferior à media
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: engativa,neagtiva,negaitva,negatiav,negativva,negattiva,negatvia,neggativa,negtaiva,ngeativa,nnegativa
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of negativa - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Using “negativa”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is N-E-G-A-T-I-V-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Don't mix it up with “negativo” - see the side-by-side comparison. negativa vs negativo
- Browse more Portuguese words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Portuguese words
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.