recreação
The verdict
“recreação” has 11 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #21,566. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #21,566
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,668
- “R” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - descanso, lazer, divertimento; ato, circunstância ou momento em que o indivíduo se diverte, descansa, brinca, e se manifesta através de "matar a vontade de", ou seja, tornar-se sua vontade algo con...
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 | recreação |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #21,566 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “recreação” sits in Portuguese frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around recreação, anoun. Corpus frequency is #21,566 among 1,668 “R” headwords. Dominant gloss: "descanso, lazer, divertimento; ato, circunstância ou momento em que o indivíduo se diverte, descansa, brinca, e se manifesta através de "matar a vontade de", ou seja, tornar-se sua vontade algo con...".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for recreação, with forms such as "ercreação", "rcereação", and "reccreação". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "refração", "recriação", "receção", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 recreação, spelled R-E-C-R-E-A-Ç-Ã-O.
Definition
- 1descanso, lazer, divertimento; ato, circunstância ou momento em que o indivíduo se diverte, descansa, brinca, e se manifesta através de "matar a vontade de", ou seja, tornar-se sua vontade algo consequentemente realizado, visando melhoria ao seu bem estar e comodismo
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ercreação
- rcereação
- reccreação
- receração
- recraeção
- recreaãço
- recreaçoã
- recreçaão
- recrreação
- rerceação
- rrecreação
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of recreação - 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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Using “recreação”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is R-E-C-R-E-A-Ç-Ã-O - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Don't mix it up with “refração” - see the side-by-side comparison. recreação vs refração
- Browse more Portuguese words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Portuguese words
Same frequency band
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.