padre
/ˈpa.dɾɨ/
The verdict
“padre” has 7 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #1,580. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,580
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,578
- “P” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 17
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - membro da igreja católica; sacerdote
Corpus desk
Index PT-padre · padre · Portuguese
padre · rank #1,580 · 7 variants · 17 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,580
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 17 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,578
- PHOTO-FINISH pede
Nearest frequency peer: pede (+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 “padre”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- madeira
madeira
98,424 corpus weight
- máximo
máximo
98,423 corpus weight
- padre
padre
98,421 corpus weight
- pede
pede
98,420 corpus weight
- pobre
pobre
98,419 corpus weight
- possibilida…
possibilidade
98,418 corpus weight
What this shows “padre” 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 | padre |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈpa.dɾɨ/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #1,580 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 17 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “padre”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around padre (IPA /ˈpa.dɾɨ/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #1,580 among 1,578 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for padre, with forms such as "apdre", "paddre", and "pader". 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 17 confusable-pair relationships, "par", "para", "pede", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 padre, spelled P-A-D-R-E.
Definition
- 1membro da igreja católica; sacerdote
- 2pai
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- apdre
- paddre
- pader
- padrre
- parde
- pdare
- ppadre
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of padre - 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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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 (7 here; floor ≥5).