road
/ɹəʊd/
The verdict
“road” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #6,702) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #6,702
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 963
- “R” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - estrada, caminho
Corpus desk
Index PT-road · road · Portuguese
road · rank #6,702 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #6,702
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-MID 963
- PHOTO-FINISH robin
Nearest frequency peer: robin (+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.
Vizinhos de frequência do confusável “road”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- road
road
93,299 corpus weight
- robin
robin
93,298 corpus weight
- semanal
semanal
93,295 corpus weight
- service
service
93,294 corpus weight
- sinopse
sinopse
93,293 corpus weight
- solidão
solidão
93,291 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “road” face aos lemas portugueses mais próximos por rank, não um reprint da secretária de confusáveis.
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 | road |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ɹəʊd/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #6,702 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “road”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for road is neighbouring look-alikes ("rua", "Rom", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced /ɹəʊd/. Frequency #6,702 among 963 “R” headwords. Gloss: "estrada, caminho".
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for road, with forms such as "orad", "raod", and "roadd". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "rua", "Rom", "rol", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Portuguese form is road, spelled R-O-A-D.
Definition
- 1estrada, caminho
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- orad
- raod
- roadd
- rroad
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of road - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).