retalho
/Rɨ.ˈta.ʎu/
The verdict
“retalho” has 10 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #39,354. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #39,354
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 963
- “R” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - parte de uma coisa que se retalhou
Corpus desk
Index PT-retalho · retalho · Portuguese
retalho · rank #39,354 · 10 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #39,354
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 963
- PHOTO-FINISH repreensão
Nearest frequency peer: repreensão (-1 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 “retalho”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- puf
puf
60,660 corpus weight
- repreensão
repreensão
60,648 corpus weight
- retalho
retalho
60,647 corpus weight
- rubrica
rubrica
60,634 corpus weight
- rácio
rácio
60,631 corpus weight
- sagacidade
sagacidade
60,630 corpus weight
What this shows “retalho” 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 | retalho |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /Rɨ.ˈta.ʎu/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #39,354 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “retalho”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around retalho (IPA /Rɨ.ˈta.ʎu/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #39,354 among 963 “R” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for retalho, with forms such as "ertalho", "reatlho", and "retahlo". 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, "rebanho", "repolho", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
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 retalho, spelled R-E-T-A-L-H-O.
Definition
- 1parte de uma coisa que se retalhou
- 2pedaço (normalmente de roupas velhas)
- 3fração
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ertalho
- reatlho
- retahlo
- retalhho
- retallho
- retaloh
- retlaho
- rettalho
- rretalho
- rtealho
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of retalho - 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 "retalho", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).