rasca
/ˈRaʃ.kɐ/
The verdict
“rasca” has 7 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #38,878. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #38,878
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 963
- “R” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - de má qualidade
Corpus desk
Index PT-rasca · rasca · Portuguese
rasca · rank #38,878 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #38,878
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 963
- PHOTO-FINISH pródigo
Nearest frequency peer: pródigo (-6 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 “rasca”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- pesqueiro
pesqueiro
61,147 corpus weight
- prossecução
prossecução
61,131 corpus weight
- pródigo
pródigo
61,129 corpus weight
- rasca
rasca
61,123 corpus weight
- religious
religious
61,113 corpus weight
- Ritter
Ritter
61,103 corpus weight
What this shows “rasca” 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 | rasca |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ˈRaʃ.kɐ/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #38,878 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “rasca”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around rasca (IPA /ˈRaʃ.kɐ/), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #38,878 among 963 “R” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for rasca, with forms such as "arsca", "racsa", and "rasac". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "rosa", "roca", "raso", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is rasca, spelled R-A-S-C-A.
Definition
- 1de má qualidade
- 2de mau gosto
- 3reles
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- arsca
- racsa
- rasac
- rascca
- rassca
- rrasca
- rsaca
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of rasca - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "rasca", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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 (7 here; floor ≥5).