serial

adj

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The verdict

“serial” has 8 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #12,980. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#12,980
frequency rank, Portuguese
1,185
“S” headwords
8
tracked misspellings
18
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - pertencente a série ou relativo a ela

Corpus desk

Index PT-serial · serial · Portuguese

serial · rank #12,980 · 8 variants · 18 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #12,980
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 18 pairs
  • VAR-MID 8 variants
  • BOOK-MID 1,185
  • PHOTO-FINISH sermão

Nearest frequency peer: sermão (+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.

Pares de rank junto ao íman ortográfico “serial”

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

corpus weight

What this shows “serial” 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).

serial vs série
50% similar
serial vs sério
50% similar
serial vs serra
67% similar

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

Key facts for serial
PropertyValue
Headwordserial
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechAdjective
Letters6
Frequency rank#12,980
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs18
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequência do íman ortográfico “serial”

A frequência vai do punhado de palavras do dia a dia (esquerda) à cauda longa quase nunca usada (direita).serialcai aqui:

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

Os ticks avançam em logaritmo; cada um é da ordem de dez vezes mais raro. Na mesma faixa de raridade aparecem “sermão” (#12,981), “sacola” (#12,977), “strike” (#12,985). Entre 1,185 lemas com “S”, “serial” fica em #12,980. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 8 spelling variants around serial, anadjective. Corpus frequency is #12,980 among 1,185 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 6 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for serial, with forms such as "esrial", "seiral", and "serail". 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 18 confusable-pair relationships, "série", "sério", "serra", 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 serial, spelled S-E-R-I-A-L.

Definition

  1. 1
    pertencente a série ou relativo a ela
  2. 2
    disposto em série; seriado
  3. 3
    que forma série
  4. 4
    que executa uma série de atos similares
  5. 5
    relativo à realização sequencial de duas ou mais atividades em um mesmo dispositivo
  6. 6
    diz-se da música baseada na série de 12 sons da escala cromática temperada

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. assassino serial

Synonyms

dodecafónicododecafônico

This word in other languages

serial(English)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • esrial
  • seiral
  • serail
  • seriall
  • serila
  • serrial
  • sreial
  • sserial

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

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

esrial2seiral2serail2seriall1serila2serrial1sreial2sserial1
Edit distance from "serial"

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 "serial"?
"serial" is spelled S-E-R-I-A-L.
What does "serial" mean?
As an adjective, "serial" means: pertencente a série ou relativo a ela
What words are commonly confused with "serial"?
"serial" is commonly confused with "série", "sério", "serra". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "serial" come from?
"serial" 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 "serial", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

sermão#12,981sacola#12,977strike#12,985virado#12,995

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).

lucky8 variantslençol8 variantsJoshua8 variantsirritar8 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list