penso
/ˈpẽ.su/
The verdict
“penso” has 7 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #1,253. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,253
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,578
- “P” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - inclinado; pendido ou de mau jeito
Corpus desk
Index PT-penso · penso · Portuguese
penso · rank #1,253 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,253
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,578
- PHOTO-FINISH olho
Nearest frequency peer: olho (-2 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 “penso”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- matéria
matéria
98,753 corpus weight
- memória
memória
98,752 corpus weight
- olho
olho
98,750 corpus weight
- penso
penso
98,748 corpus weight
- preto
preto
98,746 corpus weight
- quis
quis
98,745 corpus weight
What this shows “penso” 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 | penso |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ˈpẽ.su/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #1,253 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “penso”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around penso (IPA /ˈpẽ.su/), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #1,253 among 1,578 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "inclinado; pendido ou de mau jeito".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for penso, with forms such as "epnso", "pennso", and "penos". 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, "pes", "piso", "pero", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Portuguese form is penso, spelled P-E-N-S-O.
Definition
- 1inclinado; pendido ou de mau jeito
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- epnso
- pennso
- penos
- pensso
- pesno
- pneso
- ppenso
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of penso - 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 "penso", 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 (7 here; floor ≥5).