palhinha
/pɐ.ˈʎi.ɲɐ/
The verdict
“palhinha” has 12 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #40,719. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #40,719
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,578
- “P” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - pedaço pequeno de palha
Corpus desk
Index PT-palhinha · palhinha · Portuguese
palhinha · rank #40,719 · 12 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #40,719
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,578
- PHOTO-FINISH panetone
Nearest frequency peer: panetone (+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 “palhinha”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- omo
omo
59,290 corpus weight
- oprimir
oprimir
59,289 corpus weight
- originar
originar
59,286 corpus weight
- palhinha
palhinha
59,282 corpus weight
- panetone
panetone
59,281 corpus weight
- paraquedista
paraquedista
59,280 corpus weight
What this shows “palhinha” está entre estes pares FrequencyWords; a profundidade de typo mede-se à parte no gráfico de distância de edição.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | palhinha |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /pɐ.ˈʎi.ɲɐ/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #40,719 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “palhinha”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around palhinha (IPA /pɐ.ˈʎi.ɲɐ/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #40,719 among 1,578 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for palhinha, with forms such as "aplhinha", "pahlinha", and "palhhinha". 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. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 palhinha, spelled P-A-L-H-I-N-H-A.
Definition
- 1pedaço pequeno de palha
- 2palha entrançada usada em mobiliário
- 3tubo usado para chupar líquidos
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aplhinha
- pahlinha
- palhhinha
- palhihna
- palhinah
- palhinhha
- palhinnha
- palhniha
- palihnha
- pallhinha
- plahinha
- ppalhinha
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of palhinha - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "palhinha", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).