pata
/ˈpa.tɐ/
The verdict
“pata” has 5 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #15,417. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #15,417
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,578
- “P” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - a fêmea do pato
Corpus desk
Index PT-pata · pata · Portuguese
pata · rank #15,417 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #15,417
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,578
- PHOTO-FINISH passarela
Nearest frequency peer: passarela (-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 “pata”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- ouvinte
ouvinte
84,589 corpus weight
- passarela
passarela
84,585 corpus weight
- pata
pata
84,584 corpus weight
- paulistano
paulistano
84,583 corpus weight
- Pensilvânia
Pensilvânia
84,581 corpus weight
- peão
peão
84,578 corpus weight
What this shows “pata” 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 | pata |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈpa.tɐ/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #15,417 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “pata”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around pata (IPA /ˈpa.tɐ/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #15,417 among 1,578 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for pata, with forms such as "apta", "paat", and "patta". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "PT", "paz", "pau", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Portuguese form is pata, spelled P-A-T-A.
Definition
- 1a fêmea do pato
- 2pé de animal
- 3pé grande
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- apta
- paat
- patta
- ppata
- ptaa
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of pata - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "pata", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).