pistola
The verdict
“pistola” has 10 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #7,561. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #7,561
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,578
- “P” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - zangado, indignado com alguma coisa
Corpus desk
Index PT-pistola · pistola · Portuguese
pistola · rank #7,561 · 10 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-COMMON #7,561
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,578
- PHOTO-FINISH pensão
Nearest frequency peer: pensão (-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 “pistola”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- nogueira
nogueira
92,446 corpus weight
- pensão
pensão
92,441 corpus weight
- pistola
pistola
92,440 corpus weight
- proporcionar
proporcionar
92,437 corpus weight
- quadrilha
quadrilha
92,435 corpus weight
- queen
queen
92,434 corpus weight
What this shows “pistola” 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 | pistola |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #7,561 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “pistola”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around pistola, anadjective. Corpus frequency is #7,561 among 1,578 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "zangado, indignado com alguma coisa".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for pistola, with forms such as "ipstola", "pisotla", and "pisstola". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "pista", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Portuguese form is pistola, spelled P-I-S-T-O-L-A.
Definition
- 1zangado, indignado com alguma coisa
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pistola appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Logo surgiu o boato de que se tratava de um frasco de lança-perfume, e aí a mulher ficou pistola.
Coletânea Da Saudade
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ipstola
- pisotla
- pisstola
- pistloa
- pistoal
- pistolla
- pisttola
- pitsola
- ppistola
- psitola
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of pistola - 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 "pistola", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).