rancor
/Rɐ̃.ˈkoɾ/
The verdict
“rancor” has 9 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #14,691. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #14,691
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 963
- “R” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - ódio profundo e reservado
Corpus desk
Index PT-rancor · rancor · Portuguese
rancor · rank #14,691 · 9 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,691
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 963
- PHOTO-FINISH rampa
Nearest frequency peer: rampa (-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 “rancor”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- provocação
provocação
85,315 corpus weight
- pulmonar
pulmonar
85,313 corpus weight
- rampa
rampa
85,311 corpus weight
- rancor
rancor
85,310 corpus weight
- regente
regente
85,307 corpus weight
- regulamentar
regulamentar
85,305 corpus weight
What this shows “rancor” 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 | rancor |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /Rɐ̃.ˈkoɾ/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #14,691 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “rancor”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around rancor (IPA /Rɐ̃.ˈkoɾ/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #14,691 among 963 “R” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for rancor, with forms such as "arncor", "racnor", and "ranccor". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "ronco", "rango", "ranger", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology 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 rancor, spelled R-A-N-C-O-R.
Definition
- 1ódio profundo e reservado
- 2ressentimento
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- arncor
- racnor
- ranccor
- rancorr
- rancro
- ranncor
- ranocr
- rnacor
- rrancor
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of rancor - 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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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).