pedrão
/pe.'dɾoŋ/
The verdict
“pedrão” has 7 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #41,177. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #41,177
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,578
- “P” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 13
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - pedrão grande
Corpus desk
Index PT-pedrao · pedrão · Portuguese
pedrão · rank #41,177 · 7 variants · 13 confusables
- FREQ-MID #41,177
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 13 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,578
- PHOTO-FINISH perpendicular
Nearest frequency peer: perpendicular (+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 “pedrão”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- paneleiro
paneleiro
58,831 corpus weight
- pedrão
pedrão
58,824 corpus weight
- perpendicul…
perpendicular
58,819 corpus weight
- pesagem
pesagem
58,818 corpus weight
- poliéster
poliéster
58,816 corpus weight
- pont
pont
58,815 corpus weight
What this shows “pedrão” 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 | pedrão |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /pe.'dɾoŋ/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #41,177 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 13 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “pedrão”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around pedrão (IPA /pe.'dɾoŋ/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #41,177 among 1,578 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for pedrão, with forms such as "epdrão", "pderão", and "peddrão". 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, "pero", "pera", "perto", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Portuguese form is pedrão, spelled P-E-D-R-Ã-O.
Definition
- 1pedrão grande
- 2menir; poste de pedra usada como marco ou sinal
- 3chícharo (Lathyrus sativus)
Synonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- epdrão
- pderão
- peddrão
- pedroã
- pedrrão
- pedãro
- ppedrão
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of pedrão - 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 "pedrão", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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 (7 here; floor ≥5).