rugby
The verdict
“rugby” has 8 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #21,872. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #21,872
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 963
- “R” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - esporte em que duas equipes de 15 jogadores se enfrentam, usando as mãos e os pés, na tentativa de levar a bola oval até a linha de fundo adversária ou fazê-la passar por entre as traves da meta, s...
Corpus desk
Index PT-rugby · rugby · Portuguese
rugby · rank #21,872 · 8 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #21,872
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 963
- PHOTO-FINISH sedutor
Nearest frequency peer: sedutor (+2 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 “rugby”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- rego
rego
78,137 corpus weight
- repor
repor
78,134 corpus weight
- rugby
rugby
78,129 corpus weight
- sedutor
sedutor
78,127 corpus weight
- sensualidade
sensualidade
78,125 corpus weight
- singularida…
singularidade
78,121 corpus weight
What this shows “rugby” 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 | rugby |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #21,872 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “rugby”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around rugby, anoun. Corpus frequency is #21,872 among 963 “R” headwords. Dominant gloss: "esporte em que duas equipes de 15 jogadores se enfrentam, usando as mãos e os pés, na tentativa de levar a bola oval até a linha de fundo adversária ou fazê-la passar por entre as traves da meta, s...".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for rugby, with forms such as "rguby", "rrugby", and "rubgy". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "rusty", "rubi", "rúgbi", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
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 rugby, spelled R-U-G-B-Y.
Definition
- 1esporte em que duas equipes de 15 jogadores se enfrentam, usando as mãos e os pés, na tentativa de levar a bola oval até a linha de fundo adversária ou fazê-la passar por entre as traves da meta, sobre aquela linha
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how rugby appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Obs.: forma aportuguesada: râguebi ou rúgbi
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- rguby
- rrugby
- rubgy
- rugbby
- rugbyy
- ruggby
- rugyb
- urgby
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of rugby - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "rugby", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).