quarteto
The verdict
“quarteto” has 11 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #13,159. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #13,159
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 129
- “Q” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - composição musical, própria para ser executada por quatro vozes ou quatro instrumentos
Corpus desk
Index PT-quarteto · quarteto · Portuguese
quarteto · rank #13,159 · 11 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #13,159
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 129
- PHOTO-FINISH redondo
Nearest frequency peer: redondo (+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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “quarteto”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- potente
potente
86,850 corpus weight
- promissor
promissor
86,845 corpus weight
- quarteto
quarteto
86,842 corpus weight
- redondo
redondo
86,840 corpus weight
- rifle
rifle
86,832 corpus weight
- ruiva
ruiva
86,830 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “quarteto” sits against the nearest ranked Portuguese headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | quarteto |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #13,159 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Onde “quarteto” fica na frequência do português
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around quarteto, anoun. Corpus frequency is #13,159 among 129 “Q” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for quarteto, with forms such as "qaurteto", "qquarteto", and "quaretto". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "quarto", "quartzo", "quinteto", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is quarteto, spelled Q-U-A-R-T-E-T-O.
Definition
- 1composição musical, própria para ser executada por quatro vozes ou quatro instrumentos
- 2grupo de quatro pessoas
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how quarteto appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Muito ovacionado, o quarteto (que na verdade veio para a América Latina como um trio) mistura o ritmo eletrônico com um pé fincado numa espécie de funk europeu e com memórias do soul.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- qaurteto
- qquarteto
- quaretto
- quarrteto
- quarteot
- quartetto
- quartteo
- quartteto
- quatreto
- qurateto
- uqarteto
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of quarteto - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "quarteto", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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).
What to do next
You've looked up "quarteto". Here's where to go from here.
- "quarteto" maps to 5 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "quarto". View pair
- 11 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
- Usage frequency rank #13,159 among Portuguese headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
- Browse more Portuguese words in the "Q" letter cohort. Q–Z browse
PlainSpell is a reference corpus, not spelling advice. Verify unusual forms in context.
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.