salto
/'saltu/
The verdict
“salto” has 7 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #3,360. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #3,360
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,185
- “S” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - movimento executado por um animal que corresponde a perder contato com o solo por alguns segundos, graças à impulsão própria
Corpus desk
Index PT-salto · salto · Portuguese
salto · rank #3,360 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #3,360
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,185
- PHOTO-FINISH revolta
Nearest frequency peer: revolta (-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 “salto”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- podendo
podendo
96,647 corpus weight
- posteriorme…
posteriormente
96,646 corpus weight
- revolta
revolta
96,643 corpus weight
- salto
salto
96,641 corpus weight
- suicídio
suicídio
96,639 corpus weight
- vizinho
vizinho
96,635 corpus weight
What this shows “salto” 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 | salto |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /'saltu/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #3,360 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “salto”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around salto (IPA /'saltu/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #3,360 among 1,185 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for salto, with forms such as "aslto", "sallto", and "salot". 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, "são", "solo", "selo", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Portuguese form is salto, spelled S-A-L-T-O.
Definition
- 1movimento executado por um animal que corresponde a perder contato com o solo por alguns segundos, graças à impulsão própria
- 2parte de um sapato localizada na sola, abaixo da região do calcanhar
- 3queda d'água
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how salto appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
O cavalo de Tobias executou um belo salto sobre aquela poça.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aslto
- sallto
- salot
- saltto
- satlo
- slato
- ssalto
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of salto - 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 "salto", 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 (7 here; floor ≥5).