rusty
/ˈɹʌs.ti/
The verdict
“rusty” has 8 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #36,216. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #36,216
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 963
- “R” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - enferrujado
Corpus desk
Index PT-rusty · rusty · Portuguese
rusty · rank #36,216 · 8 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-MID #36,216
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 963
- PHOTO-FINISH réptil
Nearest frequency peer: réptil (+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 “rusty”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- ridiculamen…
ridiculamente
63,790 corpus weight
- roedor
roedor
63,788 corpus weight
- rusty
rusty
63,785 corpus weight
- réptil
réptil
63,783 corpus weight
- semita
semita
63,778 corpus weight
- sepulcro
sepulcro
63,776 corpus weight
What this shows “rusty” 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 | rusty |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ˈɹʌs.ti/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #36,216 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “rusty”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around rusty (IPA /ˈɹʌs.ti/), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #36,216 among 963 “R” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for rusty, with forms such as "rrusty", "rsuty", and "russty". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "rush", "rust", "resto", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Portuguese form is rusty, spelled R-U-S-T-Y.
Definition
- 1enferrujado
- 2da cor de ferrugem
- 3destreinado
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- rrusty
- rsuty
- russty
- rustty
- rustyy
- rusyt
- rutsy
- ursty
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of rusty - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 "rusty", 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).