seat
/siːt/
The verdict
“seat” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #34,459) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #34,459
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,185
- “S” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - cadeira (lugar ocupado por membro de uma corporação)
Corpus desk
Index PT-seat · seat · Portuguese
seat · rank #34,459 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #34,459
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,185
- PHOTO-FINISH seguidamente
Nearest frequency peer: seguidamente (+1 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.
Vizinhos de frequência do confusável “seat”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- rinite
rinite
65,554 corpus weight
- romão
romão
65,551 corpus weight
- rotular
rotular
65,549 corpus weight
- seat
seat
65,542 corpus weight
- seguidamente
seguidamente
65,541 corpus weight
- sofredor
sofredor
65,530 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “seat” face aos lemas portugueses mais próximos por rank, não um reprint da secretária de confusáveis.
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 | seat |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /siːt/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #34,459 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “seat”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for seat is neighbouring look-alikes ("ser", "seu", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced /siːt/. Frequency #34,459 among 1,185 “S” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for seat, with forms such as "esat", "saet", and "seatt". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ser", "seu", "sua", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, 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 seat, spelled S-E-A-T.
Definition
- 1cadeira (lugar ocupado por membro de uma corporação)
- 2assento
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- esat
- saet
- seatt
- sseat
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of seat - 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 "seat", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).