pavão
/pa.'boŋ/
The verdict
“pavão” has 6 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #19,519. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #19,519
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,578
- “P” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - pendão, flor masculina do milho
Corpus desk
Index PT-pavao · pavão · Portuguese
pavão · rank #19,519 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,519
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,578
- PHOTO-FINISH oráculo
Nearest frequency peer: oráculo (-5 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 “pavão”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- objetividade
objetividade
80,492 corpus weight
- olhado
olhado
80,490 corpus weight
- oriundo
oriundo
80,488 corpus weight
- oráculo
oráculo
80,487 corpus weight
- pavão
pavão
80,482 corpus weight
- prensa
prensa
80,475 corpus weight
What this shows “pavão” 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 | pavão |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /pa.'boŋ/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #19,519 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “pavão”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around pavão (IPA /pa.'boŋ/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #19,519 among 1,578 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for pavão, with forms such as "apvão", "pavoã", and "pavvão". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "povo", "peão", "pião", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is pavão, spelled P-A-V-Ã-O.
Definition
- 1pendão, flor masculina do milho
- 2pavão
- 3verniz que se lha dá aos metais para que não oxidem
Synonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- apvão
- pavoã
- pavvão
- paãvo
- ppavão
- pvaão
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of pavão - 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 "pavão", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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).