salamandra
The verdict
“salamandra” has 15 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #49,169. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #49,169
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 2,603
- “S” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - nome comum dos anfíbios caudados
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | salamandra |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #49,169 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “salamandra” sits in Portuguese frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around salamandra, anoun. Corpus frequency is #49,169 among 2,603 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "nome comum dos anfíbios caudados".
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for salamandra, with forms such as "aslamandra", "saalmandra", and "salaamndra". 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. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, 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 salamandra, spelled S-A-L-A-M-A-N-D-R-A.
Definition
- 1nome comum dos anfíbios caudados
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aslamandra
- saalmandra
- salaamndra
- salamadnra
- salamandar
- salamanddra
- salamandrra
- salamanndra
- salamanrda
- salammandra
- salamnadra
- sallamandra
- salmaandra
- slaamandra
- ssalamandra
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of salamandra - 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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Using “salamandra”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is S-A-L-A-M-A-N-D-R-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Browse more Portuguese words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Portuguese words
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.