regionalista
The verdict
“regionalista” has 17 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #38,458. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #38,458
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,668
- “R” headwords
- 17
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - que se refere particularmente a uma região
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 | regionalista |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #38,458 |
| Misspellings tracked | 17 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “regionalista” sits in Portuguese frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 17 spelling variants around regionalista, anadjective. Corpus frequency is #38,458 among 1,668 “R” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 17 likely wrong-spelling variants for regionalista, with forms such as "ergionalista", "reggionalista", and "reginoalista". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "regionalismo", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Portuguese form is regionalista, spelled R-E-G-I-O-N-A-L-I-S-T-A.
Definition
- 1que se refere particularmente a uma região
- 2que segue ou cultiva o regionalismo
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ergionalista
- reggionalista
- reginoalista
- regioanlista
- regionailsta
- regionalisat
- regionalissta
- regionalistta
- regionalitsa
- regionallista
- regionalsita
- regionlaista
- regionnalista
- regoinalista
- reigonalista
- rgeionalista
- rregionalista
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of regionalista - 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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Using “regionalista”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is R-E-G-I-O-N-A-L-I-S-T-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Don't mix it up with “regionalismo” - see the side-by-side comparison. regionalista vs regionalismo
- 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.