sanitário
/sɐni'tarju/
The verdict
“sanitário” has 12 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #13,613. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #13,613
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,185
- “S” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - relativo à saúde pública ou individual, à higiene
Corpus desk
Index PT-sanitario · sanitário · Portuguese
sanitário · rank #13,613 · 12 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #13,613
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,185
- PHOTO-FINISH romantismo
Nearest frequency peer: romantismo (-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 “sanitário”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- repensar
repensar
86,396 corpus weight
- resort
resort
86,393 corpus weight
- reviver
reviver
86,391 corpus weight
- romantismo
romantismo
86,390 corpus weight
- sanitário
sanitário
86,388 corpus weight
- surpreenden…
surpreendentemente
86,380 corpus weight
What this shows “sanitário” 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 | sanitário |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /sɐni'tarju/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #13,613 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “sanitário”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around sanitário (IPA /sɐni'tarju/), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #13,613 among 1,185 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for sanitário, with forms such as "asnitário", "saintário", and "sanitráio". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "santuário", "solitário", "sanatório", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Portuguese form is sanitário, spelled S-A-N-I-T-Á-R-I-O.
Definition
- 1relativo à saúde pública ou individual, à higiene
- 2relativo a banheiro, aposento com todo o aparelhamento de banho
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how sanitário appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Cuidados sanitários.
Louça sanitária.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- asnitário
- saintário
- sanitráio
- sanittário
- sanitáiro
- sanitároi
- sanitárrio
- saniátrio
- sannitário
- santiário
- snaitário
- ssanitário
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of sanitário - 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 "sanitário", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).