racismo
/Ra.ˈsiʒ.mu/
The verdict
“racismo” has 10 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #5,137. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #5,137
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 963
- “R” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - conjunto de teorias e crenças que estabelecem uma hierarquia entre as raças, entre as etnias
Corpus desk
Index PT-racismo · racismo · Portuguese
racismo · rank #5,137 · 10 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,137
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 963
- PHOTO-FINISH radiação
Nearest frequency peer: radiação (+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 “racismo”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- poço
poço
94,872 corpus weight
- queima
queima
94,866 corpus weight
- racismo
racismo
94,864 corpus weight
- radiação
radiação
94,863 corpus weight
- refletir
refletir
94,861 corpus weight
- regularmente
regularmente
94,860 corpus weight
What this shows “racismo” 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 | racismo |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /Ra.ˈsiʒ.mu/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #5,137 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “racismo”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around racismo (IPA /Ra.ˈsiʒ.mu/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #5,137 among 963 “R” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for racismo, with forms such as "arcismo", "raccismo", and "racimso". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "racista", "realismo", "rácio", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Portuguese form is racismo, spelled R-A-C-I-S-M-O.
Definition
- 1conjunto de teorias e crenças que estabelecem uma hierarquia entre as raças, entre as etnias
- 2doutrina que afirma que uma raça é superior a outra num dado lugar ou país
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how racismo appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dois homens foram detidos na noite do sábado, 24, por suspeita de racismo no Anhangabaú, centro de São Paulo.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- arcismo
- raccismo
- racimso
- racismmo
- racisom
- racissmo
- racsimo
- raicsmo
- rcaismo
- rracismo
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of racismo - 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 "racismo", 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).