secret
/səkʁɛ/
The verdict
“secret” has 9 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #11,153. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #11,153
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,185
- “S” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - secreto
Corpus desk
Index PT-secret · secret · Portuguese
secret · rank #11,153 · 9 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-MID #11,153
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,185
- PHOTO-FINISH sais
Nearest frequency peer: sais (-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 “secret”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- review
review
88,856 corpus weight
- sais
sais
88,851 corpus weight
- secret
secret
88,848 corpus weight
- sonda
sonda
88,844 corpus weight
- sueco
sueco
88,839 corpus weight
- sugerido
sugerido
88,838 corpus weight
What this shows “secret” 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 | secret |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /səkʁɛ/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #11,153 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “secret”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around secret (IPA /səkʁɛ/), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #11,153 among 1,185 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "secreto".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for secret, with forms such as "escret", "sceret", and "seccret". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "serem", "seres", "serei", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct Portuguese form is secret, spelled S-E-C-R-E-T.
Definition
- 1secreto
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- escret
- sceret
- seccret
- secert
- secrett
- secrret
- secrte
- sercet
- ssecret
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of secret - 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 "secret", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).