sábado
/ˈsa.bɐ.dʊ/
The verdict
“sábado” has 8 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #880. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #880
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,185
- “S” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 17
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - sexto dia da semana pela norma ISO 8601, posterior à sexta-feira e anterior ao domingo; por fundamentação bíblica e etimológica, é considerado o último dia da semana
Corpus desk
Index PT-sabado · sábado · Portuguese
sábado · rank #880 · 8 variants · 17 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #880
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 17 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,185
- PHOTO-FINISH pé
Nearest frequency peer: pé (-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 “sábado”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- ouro
ouro
99,125 corpus weight
- pé
pé
99,123 corpus weight
- sábado
sábado
99,121 corpus weight
- bairro
bairro
99,118 corpus weight
- chamar
chamar
99,117 corpus weight
- costa
costa
99,116 corpus weight
What this shows “sábado” 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 | sábado |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈsa.bɐ.dʊ/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #880 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 17 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “sábado”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around sábado (IPA /ˈsa.bɐ.dʊ/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #880 among 1,185 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for sábado, with forms such as "sbáado", "ssábado", and "sáabdo". 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 17 confusable-pair relationships, "salão", "saído", "saldo", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct Portuguese form is sábado, spelled S-Á-B-A-D-O.
Definition
- 1sexto dia da semana pela norma ISO 8601, posterior à sexta-feira e anterior ao domingo; por fundamentação bíblica e etimológica, é considerado o último dia da semana
- 2dia de oração e descanso para os judeus e cristãos sabatistas
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how sábado appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Os que andavam na velha ordem das coisas chegaram à novidade da esperança, não mais observando o sábado, mas vivendo segundo o dia do Senhor
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- sbáado
- ssábado
- sáabdo
- sábaddo
- sábaod
- sábbado
- sábdao
- ásbado
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of sábado - 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 "sábado", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).