room
/ɹʊm/, /ɹuːm/
The verdict
“room” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #12,330) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #12,330
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 963
- “R” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - espaço
Corpus desk
Index PT-room · room · Portuguese
room · rank #12,330 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #12,330
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-MID 963
- PHOTO-FINISH roubada
Nearest frequency peer: roubada (+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 “room”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- profissiona…
profissionalmente
87,684 corpus weight
- room
room
87,671 corpus weight
- roubada
roubada
87,670 corpus weight
- season
season
87,667 corpus weight
- severa
severa
87,663 corpus weight
- silicone
silicone
87,662 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “room” 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 | room |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ɹʊm/, /ɹuːm/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #12,330 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “room”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for room is neighbouring look-alikes ("rum", "ros", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced /ɹʊm/, /ɹuːm/. Frequency #12,330 among 963 “R” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for room, with forms such as "orom", "romo", and "roomm". 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, "rum", "ros", "ruim", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Portuguese form is room, spelled R-O-O-M.
Definition
- 1espaço
- 2quarto, cômodo
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- orom
- romo
- roomm
- rroom
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of room - 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 "room", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).