sapateiro

noun

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The verdict

“sapateiro” has 12 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #35,775. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#35,775
frequency rank, Portuguese
1,185
“S” headwords
12
tracked misspellings
1
confusable pair

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - profissional que lida com sapatos e outros calçados

Corpus desk

Index PT-sapateiro · sapateiro · Portuguese

sapateiro · rank #35,775 · 12 variants · 1 confusable

  • FREQ-MID #35,775
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
  • VAR-MID 12 variants
  • BOOK-MID 1,185
  • PHOTO-FINISH semblante

Nearest frequency peer: semblante (+3 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 “sapateiro”

Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho

corpus weight

What this shows “sapateiro” está entre estes pares FrequencyWords; a profundidade de typo mede-se à parte no gráfico de distância de edição.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

sapateiro vs santeiro
78% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for sapateiro
PropertyValue
Headwordsapateiro
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
Letters9
Frequency rank#35,775
Misspellings tracked12
Confusable pairs1
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequência do íman ortográfico “sapateiro”

Esta escala corre do núcleo do português quotidiano (esquerda) até o rastro de formas raras (direita).sapateirocai aqui:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

O eixo é logarítmico: cada tick marca cerca de dez vezes menos frequência. Na mesma faixa de raridade aparecem “semblante” (#35,778), “rosso” (#35,768), “sósia” (#35,794). Entre 1,185 lemas com “S”, “sapateiro” fica em #35,775. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 12 spelling variants around sapateiro, anoun. Corpus frequency is #35,775 among 1,185 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "profissional que lida com sapatos e outros calçados".

Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for sapateiro, with forms such as "aspateiro", "saapteiro", and "sapaetiro". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "santeiro", 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 spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Portuguese form is sapateiro, spelled S-A-P-A-T-E-I-R-O.

Definition

  1. 1
    profissional que lida com sapatos e outros calçados

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how sapateiro appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. O ditador soviético nasceu em 1878 (e não em 1879, como ele posteriormente afirmou), filho único de um sapateiro e uma costureira, Beso e Keke Djugashvili.

This word in other languages

shoemaker(English)zapatero(Español)cordonnier(Français)Schuhmacher(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • aspateiro
  • saapteiro
  • sapaetiro
  • sapateior
  • sapateirro
  • sapaterio
  • sapatiero
  • sapatteiro
  • sappateiro
  • saptaeiro
  • spaateiro
  • ssapateiro

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of sapateiro - 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.

aspateiro2saapteiro2sapaetiro2sapateior2sapateirro1sapaterio2sapatiero2sapatteiro1
Edit distance from "sapateiro"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "sapateiro"?
"sapateiro" is spelled S-A-P-A-T-E-I-R-O.
What does "sapateiro" mean?
As a noun, "sapateiro" means: profissional que lida com sapatos e outros calçados
What words are commonly confused with "sapateiro"?
"sapateiro" is commonly confused with "santeiro". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "sapateiro" come from?
"sapateiro" is a Portuguese word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "sapateiro", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

semblante#35,778refletido#35,755provençal#35,744travessão#35,814

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).

perfurar12 variantsmensurar12 variantsenraizado12 variantsinfligir12 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list