quiet
/kjɛ/
The verdict
“quiet” has 5 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #32,745. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #32,745
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 129
- “Q” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 16
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - quieto, tranquilo, calmo, pacífico.
Corpus desk
Index PT-quiet · quiet · Portuguese
quiet · rank #32,745 · 5 variants · 16 confusables
- FREQ-MID #32,745
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 16 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-MID 129
- PHOTO-FINISH pretérito
Nearest frequency peer: pretérito (-5 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 “quiet”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- pecar
pecar
67,276 corpus weight
- pontaria
pontaria
67,268 corpus weight
- pretérito
pretérito
67,261 corpus weight
- quiet
quiet
67,256 corpus weight
- requisitar
requisitar
67,244 corpus weight
- rotativo
rotativo
67,239 corpus weight
What this shows “quiet” 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 | quiet |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /kjɛ/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #32,745 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 16 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “quiet”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around quiet (IPA /kjɛ/), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #32,745 among 129 “Q” headwords. Dominant gloss: "quieto, tranquilo, calmo, pacífico.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for quiet, with forms such as "qiuet", "qquiet", and "queit". 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 16 confusable-pair relationships, "quis", "quit", "quilo", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 quiet, spelled Q-U-I-E-T.
Definition
- 1quieto, tranquilo, calmo, pacífico.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- qiuet
- qquiet
- queit
- quiett
- uqiet
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of quiet - 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
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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 (5 here; floor ≥5).