recital

noun

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The verdict

“recital” has 10 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #29,885. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#29,885
frequency rank, Portuguese
963
“R” headwords
10
tracked misspellings
3
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - apresentação artística (geralmente musical) por um solista

Corpus desk

Index PT-recital · recital · Portuguese

recital · rank #29,885 · 10 variants · 3 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #29,885
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
  • VAR-MID 10 variants
  • BOOK-MID 963
  • PHOTO-FINISH purple

Nearest frequency peer: purple (-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 “recital”

Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho

corpus weight

What this shows “recital” está entre estes pares FrequencyWords; a profundidade de typo mede-se à parte no gráfico de distância de edição.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

recital vs recitar
86% similar
recital vs racial
71% similar
recital vs receita
71% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for recital
PropertyValue
Headwordrecital
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
Letters7
Frequency rank#29,885
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs3
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequência do íman ortográfico “recital”

A frequência vai do punhado de palavras do dia a dia (esquerda) à cauda longa quase nunca usada (direita).recitalcai aqui:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

O eixo é logarítmico: cada tick marca cerca de dez vezes menos frequência. Na mesma faixa de raridade aparecem “purple” (#29,879), “psicanalista” (#29,877), “pseudónimo” (#29,876). Entre 963 lemas com “R”, “recital” fica em #29,885. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 10 spelling variants around recital, anoun. Corpus frequency is #29,885 among 963 “R” headwords. Dominant gloss: "apresentação artística (geralmente musical) por um solista".

Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for recital, with forms such as "ercital", "rceital", and "reccital". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "recitar", "racial", "receita", 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 its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Portuguese form is recital, spelled R-E-C-I-T-A-L.

Definition

  1. 1
    apresentação artística (geralmente musical) por um solista

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how recital appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Após recital brilhante na primeira parte, Montero se perde em improvisos sobre Liszt.

This word in other languages

recital(English)recital(Español)récital(Français)Rezital(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ercital
  • rceital
  • reccital
  • reciatl
  • recitall
  • recitla
  • recittal
  • rectial
  • reictal
  • rrecital

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of recital - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

ercital2rceital2reccital1reciatl2recitall1recitla2recittal1rectial2
Edit distance from "recital"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "recital"?
"recital" is spelled R-E-C-I-T-A-L.
What does "recital" mean?
As a noun, "recital" means: apresentação artística (geralmente musical) por um solista
What words are commonly confused with "recital"?
"recital" is commonly confused with "recitar", "racial", "receita". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "recital" come from?
"recital" is a Portuguese word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
Is PlainSpell free to use?
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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "recital", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

startup#29,915paisana#29,853sulfato#29,917nalguns#29,841

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).

mecenas10 variantslagosta10 variantsabrupta10 variantsagrupar10 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list