ornamento

noun

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The verdict

“ornamento” has 13 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #45,971. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#45,971
frequency rank, Portuguese
385
“O” headwords
13
tracked misspellings
2
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - elemento acessório, não fundamental, em uma composição artística, em especial na composição arquitetônica e no design

Corpus desk

Index PT-ornamento · ornamento · Portuguese

ornamento · rank #45,971 · 13 variants · 2 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #45,971
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 13 variants
  • BOOK-MID 385
  • PHOTO-FINISH Orestes

Nearest frequency peer: Orestes (-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 “ornamento”

Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho

corpus weight

What this shows “ornamento” está entre estes pares FrequencyWords; a profundidade de typo mede-se à parte no gráfico de distância de edição.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

ornamento vs orçamento
89% similar
ornamento vs ornamental
80% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for ornamento
PropertyValue
Headwordornamento
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
Letters9
Frequency rank#45,971
Misspellings tracked13
Confusable pairs2
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequência do íman ortográfico “ornamento”

Esta escala corre do núcleo do português quotidiano (esquerda) até o rastro de formas raras (direita).ornamentocai aqui:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

A escala é logarítmica (cada marca ≈ 10× mais rara). Na mesma faixa de raridade aparecem “Orestes” (#45,970), “osteoporose” (#45,973), “oncologista” (#45,968). Entre 385 lemas com “O”, “ornamento” fica em #45,971. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 13 spelling variants around ornamento, anoun. Corpus frequency is #45,971 among 385 “O” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for ornamento, with forms such as "onramento", "oranmento", and "ornaemnto". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "orçamento", "ornamental", 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 spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Portuguese form is ornamento, spelled O-R-N-A-M-E-N-T-O.

Definition

  1. 1
    elemento acessório, não fundamental, em uma composição artística, em especial na composição arquitetônica e no design
  2. 2
    som, ruído, notas, etc. adicionadas a música para aumentar a sonoridade ou deixá-la mais agradável; decoração

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how ornamento appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Em Shinahota, o ornamento foi complementado com um chapéu de palha também coberto com as folhas da planta.

This word in other languages

ornament(English)ornamento(Español)ornement(Français)Ornament(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • onramento
  • oranmento
  • ornaemnto
  • ornamennto
  • ornamenot
  • ornamentto
  • ornametno
  • ornammento
  • ornamneto
  • ornmaento
  • ornnamento
  • orrnamento
  • ronamento

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of ornamento - 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.

onramento2oranmento2ornaemnto2ornamennto1ornamenot2ornamentto1ornametno2ornammento1
Edit distance from "ornamento"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "ornamento"?
"ornamento" is spelled O-R-N-A-M-E-N-T-O.
What does "ornamento" mean?
As a noun, "ornamento" means: elemento acessório, não fundamental, em uma composição artística, em especial na composição arquitetônica e no design
What words are commonly confused with "ornamento"?
"ornamento" is commonly confused with "orçamento", "ornamental". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "ornamento" come from?
"ornamento" is a Portuguese word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "ornamento", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

outorgado#45,975pesticida#45,992idealizar#45,881faxineiro#45,854

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).

expression13 variantsencurralar13 variantsberingela13 variantsbarbatana13 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list