serpente
The verdict
“serpente” has 12 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #11,346. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #11,346
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,185
- “S” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - gênero de répteis sem membros
Corpus desk
Index PT-serpente · serpente · Portuguese
serpente · rank #11,346 · 12 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #11,346
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,185
- PHOTO-FINISH sentimental
Nearest frequency peer: sentimental (-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 “serpente”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- rotação
rotação
88,659 corpus weight
- rótulo
rótulo
88,658 corpus weight
- sentimental
sentimental
88,656 corpus weight
- serpente
serpente
88,655 corpus weight
- sinceridade
sinceridade
88,652 corpus weight
- sobrenatural
sobrenatural
88,651 corpus weight
What this shows “serpente” 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 | serpente |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #11,346 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “serpente”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around serpente, anoun. Corpus frequency is #11,346 among 1,185 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for serpente, with forms such as "esrpente", "seprente", and "serepnte". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "servente", "semente", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Portuguese form is serpente, spelled S-E-R-P-E-N-T-E.
Definition
- 1gênero de répteis sem membros
- 2cobra
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how serpente appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Os ofitas adoravam a serpente que levou à expulsão de Adão e Eva do Éden. (notícia do jornal O Estado de S. Paulo de 08 de abril de 2006)
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- esrpente
- seprente
- serepnte
- serpenet
- serpennte
- serpentte
- serpetne
- serpnete
- serppente
- serrpente
- srepente
- sserpente
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of serpente - 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.
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 "serpente", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).