pingue
/ˈpĩ.ɡɨ/
The verdict
“pingue” has 8 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #38,425. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #38,425
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,578
- “P” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - crasso, gorduroso
Corpus desk
Index PT-pingue · pingue · Portuguese
pingue · rank #38,425 · 8 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #38,425
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,578
- PHOTO-FINISH perversão
Nearest frequency peer: perversão (-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 “pingue”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- numeroso
numeroso
61,601 corpus weight
- Palau
Palau
61,594 corpus weight
- perversão
perversão
61,578 corpus weight
- pingue
pingue
61,576 corpus weight
- portabilida…
portabilidade
61,571 corpus weight
- rasto
rasto
61,551 corpus weight
What this shows “pingue” 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 | pingue |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ˈpĩ.ɡɨ/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #38,425 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “pingue”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around pingue (IPA /ˈpĩ.ɡɨ/), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #38,425 among 1,578 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for pingue, with forms such as "ipngue", "pignue", and "pingeu". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "pique", "pinguim", "pingo", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is pingue, spelled P-I-N-G-U-E.
Definition
- 1crasso, gorduroso
- 2produtivo, que é gerador; fecundo, abundante
- 3que produz lucro
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ipngue
- pignue
- pingeu
- pinggue
- pinngue
- pinuge
- pnigue
- ppingue
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of pingue - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "pingue", 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 (8 here; floor ≥5).