pascal
/pɐʃ.ˈkaɫ/
The verdict
“pascal” has 9 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #16,579. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #16,579
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,578
- “P” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 13
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - referente ao Domingo de Páscoa ou à Páscoa ou próprio deles
Corpus desk
Index PT-pascal · pascal · Portuguese
pascal · rank #16,579 · 9 variants · 13 confusables
- FREQ-MID #16,579
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 13 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,578
- PHOTO-FINISH pariu
Nearest frequency peer: pariu (-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 “pascal”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- numeração
numeração
83,430 corpus weight
- oliva
oliva
83,428 corpus weight
- pariu
pariu
83,423 corpus weight
- pascal
pascal
83,422 corpus weight
- passatempo
passatempo
83,421 corpus weight
- película
película
83,418 corpus weight
What this shows “pascal” 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 | pascal |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /pɐʃ.ˈkaɫ/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #16,579 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 13 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “pascal”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around pascal (IPA /pɐʃ.ˈkaɫ/), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #16,579 among 1,578 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "referente ao Domingo de Páscoa ou à Páscoa ou próprio deles".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for pascal, with forms such as "apscal", "pacsal", and "pasacl". 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 13 confusable-pair relationships, "passa", "pisca", "passar", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Portuguese form is pascal, spelled P-A-S-C-A-L.
Definition
- 1referente ao Domingo de Páscoa ou à Páscoa ou próprio deles
Synonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- apscal
- pacsal
- pasacl
- pascall
- pasccal
- pascla
- passcal
- ppascal
- psacal
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of pascal - 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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).