odor
/ɔ.ˈdoɾ/
The verdict
“odor” sits in 16 confusable pairs (corpus #16,128) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #16,128
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 385
- “O” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 16
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - impressão produzida no olfato pelas emanações voláteis dos corpos
Corpus desk
Index PT-odor · odor · Portuguese
odor · rank #16,128 · 4 variants · 16 confusables
- FREQ-MID #16,128
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 16 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-MID 385
- PHOTO-FINISH orfanato
Nearest frequency peer: orfanato (+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.
Vizinhos de frequência do confusável “odor”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- movimentado
movimentado
83,882 corpus weight
- odor
odor
83,873 corpus weight
- orfanato
orfanato
83,872 corpus weight
- Osvaldo
Osvaldo
83,869 corpus weight
- pancada
pancada
83,867 corpus weight
- parasita
parasita
83,866 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “odor” face aos lemas portugueses mais próximos por rank, não um reprint da secretária de confusáveis.
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 | odor |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ɔ.ˈdoɾ/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #16,128 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 16 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “odor”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for odor is neighbouring look-alikes ("or", "ovo", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced /ɔ.ˈdoɾ/. Frequency #16,128 among 385 “O” headwords. Gloss: "impressão produzida no olfato pelas emanações voláteis dos corpos".
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for odor, with forms such as "oddor", "odorr", and "odro". 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 16 confusable-pair relationships, "or", "ovo", "our", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Portuguese form is odor, spelled O-D-O-R.
Definition
- 1impressão produzida no olfato pelas emanações voláteis dos corpos
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- oddor
- odorr
- odro
- oodr
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of odor - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).