night
/naɪt/ Áudio (EUA)^(fonte ?)
The verdict
“night” has 8 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #6,792. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #6,792
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 360
- “N” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - noite (período entre o anoitecer e o amanhecer)
Corpus desk
Index PT-night · night · Portuguese
night · rank #6,792 · 8 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #6,792
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 360
- PHOTO-FINISH metas
Nearest frequency peer: metas (-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 “night”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- memorial
memorial
93,213 corpus weight
- mesas
mesas
93,212 corpus weight
- metas
metas
93,210 corpus weight
- night
night
93,209 corpus weight
- non
non
93,208 corpus weight
- passear
passear
93,204 corpus weight
What this shows “night” 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 | night |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /naɪt/ Áudio (EUA)^(fonte ?) |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #6,792 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “night”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around night (IPA /naɪt/ Áudio (EUA)^(fonte ?)), anoun. Corpus frequency is #6,792 among 360 “N” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for night, with forms such as "inght", "ngiht", and "nigght". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "ninho", "nicho", "Niger", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Portuguese form is night, spelled N-I-G-H-T.
Definition
- 1noite (período entre o anoitecer e o amanhecer)
- 2escuridão, trevas
Synonyms
Antonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- inght
- ngiht
- nigght
- nighht
- nightt
- nigth
- nihgt
- nnight
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of night - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).