religious
/ɹɪ.ˈlɪ.d͡ʒəs/
The verdict
“religious” has 12 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #38,888. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #38,888
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 963
- “R” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - religioso
Corpus desk
Index PT-religious · religious · Portuguese
religious · rank #38,888 · 12 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #38,888
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 963
- PHOTO-FINISH rasca
Nearest frequency peer: rasca (-10 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 “religious”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- 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
- schwarz
schwarz
61,094 corpus weight
What this shows “religious” 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 | religious |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ɹɪ.ˈlɪ.d͡ʒəs/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #38,888 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “religious”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around religious (IPA /ɹɪ.ˈlɪ.d͡ʒəs/), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #38,888 among 963 “R” headwords. Dominant gloss: "religioso".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for religious, with forms such as "erligious", "reilgious", and "relgiious". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "religion", "religiosa", "religioso", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is religious, spelled R-E-L-I-G-I-O-U-S.
Definition
- 1religioso
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how religious appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
No one gets to stay out of anything concerning at least one new religious movement just because the Chinese Communist Party or some other unscrupulous camp has deep hatred toward such people.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- erligious
- reilgious
- relgiious
- religgious
- religiosu
- religiouss
- religiuos
- religoius
- reliigous
- relligious
- rleigious
- rreligious
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of religious - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 "religious", 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 (12 here; floor ≥5).