quarenta
/kwɐ.ˈɾẽ.tɐ/
The verdict
“quarenta” has 11 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #5,039. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #5,039
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 129
- “Q” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - número equivalente a quatro dezenas; cardinalidade de um conjunto que contenha quatro dezenas de elementos distintos; representado pelo símbolo 40 (algarismos arábicos) ou XL (algarismos romanos)
Corpus desk
Index PT-quarenta · quarenta · Portuguese
quarenta · rank #5,039 · 11 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,039
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 129
- PHOTO-FINISH radical
Nearest frequency peer: radical (+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 “quarenta”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- montar
montar
94,973 corpus weight
- preservar
preservar
94,964 corpus weight
- quarenta
quarenta
94,962 corpus weight
- radical
radical
94,961 corpus weight
- separar
separar
94,958 corpus weight
- testar
testar
94,955 corpus weight
What this shows “quarenta” 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 | quarenta |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /kwɐ.ˈɾẽ.tɐ/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #5,039 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “quarenta”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around quarenta (IPA /kwɐ.ˈɾẽ.tɐ/), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #5,039 among 129 “Q” headwords. Dominant gloss: "número equivalente a quatro dezenas; cardinalidade de um conjunto que contenha quatro dezenas de elementos distintos; representado pelo símbolo 40 (algarismos arábicos) ou XL (algarismos romanos)".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for quarenta, with forms such as "qaurenta", "qquarenta", and "quaernta". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "quaresma", "quarentena", 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 any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Portuguese form is quarenta, spelled Q-U-A-R-E-N-T-A.
Definition
- 1número equivalente a quatro dezenas; cardinalidade de um conjunto que contenha quatro dezenas de elementos distintos; representado pelo símbolo 40 (algarismos arábicos) ou XL (algarismos romanos)
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- qaurenta
- qquarenta
- quaernta
- quarenat
- quarennta
- quarentta
- quaretna
- quarneta
- quarrenta
- quraenta
- uqarenta
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of quarenta - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).