selling
/ˈsɛ.lɪŋ/
The verdict
“selling” has 9 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #45,592. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #45,592
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,185
- “S” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - venda, ato de vender
Corpus desk
Index PT-selling · selling · Portuguese
selling · rank #45,592 · 9 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #45,592
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,185
- PHOTO-FINISH serias
Nearest frequency peer: serias (+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 “selling”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- retificação
retificação
54,426 corpus weight
- santeiro
santeiro
54,418 corpus weight
- selling
selling
54,409 corpus weight
- serias
serias
54,407 corpus weight
- setentrional
setentrional
54,406 corpus weight
- sulco
sulco
54,391 corpus weight
What this shows “selling” está entre estes pares FrequencyWords; a profundidade de typo mede-se à parte no gráfico de distância de edição.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | selling |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈsɛ.lɪŋ/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #45,592 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “selling”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around selling (IPA /ˈsɛ.lɪŋ/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #45,592 among 1,185 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "venda, ato de vender".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for selling, with forms such as "eslling", "selilng", and "seling". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
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 selling, spelled S-E-L-L-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1venda, ato de vender
Antonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- eslling
- selilng
- seling
- sellign
- sellingg
- sellinng
- sellnig
- sleling
- sselling
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of selling - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).