oxalá
/o.ʃɐ.ˈla/
The verdict
“oxalá” has 6 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #26,126. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #26,126
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 385
- “O” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - exprime desejo de realização de um fato; tomara; queira Deus
Corpus desk
Index PT-oxala · oxalá · Portuguese
oxalá · rank #26,126 · 6 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #26,126
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 385
- PHOTO-FINISH panquecas
Nearest frequency peer: panquecas (+3 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 “oxalá”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- nutricional
nutricional
73,883 corpus weight
- níquel
níquel
73,882 corpus weight
- oxalá
oxalá
73,875 corpus weight
- panquecas
panquecas
73,872 corpus weight
- Patagônia
Patagônia
73,867 corpus weight
- pax
pax
73,865 corpus weight
What this shows “oxalá” 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 | oxalá |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| IPA | /o.ʃɐ.ˈla/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #26,126 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “oxalá”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around oxalá (IPA /o.ʃɐ.ˈla/), aninterjection. Corpus frequency is #26,126 among 385 “O” headwords. Dominant gloss: "exprime desejo de realização de um fato; tomara; queira Deus".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for oxalá, with forms such as "oaxlá", "oxallá", and "oxaál". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "olá", "oral", "orla", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 oxalá, spelled O-X-A-L-Á.
Definition
- 1exprime desejo de realização de um fato; tomara; queira Deus
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how oxalá appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- oaxlá
- oxallá
- oxaál
- oxlaá
- oxxalá
- xoalá
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of oxalá - 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 (6 here; floor ≥5).