race
/ɹeɪs/
The verdict
“race” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #12,135) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #12,135
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 963
- “R” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - raça
Corpus desk
Index PT-race · race · Portuguese
race · rank #12,135 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #12,135
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-MID 963
- PHOTO-FINISH prover
Nearest frequency peer: prover (-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.
Vizinhos de frequência do confusável “race”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- prontamente
prontamente
87,870 corpus weight
- prove
prove
87,869 corpus weight
- prover
prover
87,868 corpus weight
- race
race
87,866 corpus weight
- revolution
revolution
87,861 corpus weight
- rivalidade
rivalidade
87,860 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “race” face aos lemas portugueses mais próximos por rank, não um reprint da secretária de confusáveis.
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 | race |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ɹeɪs/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #12,135 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “race”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for race is neighbouring look-alikes ("ré", "Ram", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced /ɹeɪs/. Frequency #12,135 among 963 “R” headwords. Gloss: "raça".
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for race, with forms such as "racce", "raec", and "rcae". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ré", "Ram", "rue", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct Portuguese form is race, spelled R-A-C-E.
Definition
- 1raça
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- racce
- raec
- rcae
- rrace
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of race - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).