referendo
/Rɨ.fɨ.ˈɾẽ.du/
The verdict
“referendo” has 13 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #10,431. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #10,431
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 963
- “R” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - instrumento da democracia semi-direta por meio do qual os cidadãos eleitores são chamados a pronunciar-se por sufrágio direto e secreto, a título vinculativo, sobre determinados assuntos de relevan...
Corpus desk
Index PT-referendo · referendo · Portuguese
referendo · rank #10,431 · 13 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #10,431
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 963
- PHOTO-FINISH qualificado
Nearest frequency peer: qualificado (-3 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 “referendo”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- preguiça
preguiça
89,578 corpus weight
- price
price
89,576 corpus weight
- propina
propina
89,575 corpus weight
- qualificado
qualificado
89,573 corpus weight
- referendo
referendo
89,570 corpus weight
- riso
riso
89,567 corpus weight
What this shows “referendo” 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 | referendo |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /Rɨ.fɨ.ˈɾẽ.du/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #10,431 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “referendo”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around referendo (IPA /Rɨ.fɨ.ˈɾẽ.du/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #10,431 among 963 “R” headwords. Dominant gloss: "instrumento da democracia semi-direta por meio do qual os cidadãos eleitores são chamados a pronunciar-se por sufrágio direto e secreto, a título vinculativo, sobre determinados assuntos de relevan...".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for referendo, with forms such as "erferendo", "reefrendo", and "refeerndo". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "referido", "referente", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Portuguese form is referendo, spelled R-E-F-E-R-E-N-D-O.
Definition
- 1instrumento da democracia semi-direta por meio do qual os cidadãos eleitores são chamados a pronunciar-se por sufrágio direto e secreto, a título vinculativo, sobre determinados assuntos de relevante interesse à nação
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- erferendo
- reefrendo
- refeerndo
- referedno
- referenddo
- referenndo
- referenod
- refernedo
- referrendo
- refferendo
- refreendo
- rfeerendo
- rreferendo
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of referendo - 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 "referendo", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).