sing
The verdict
“sing” has 6 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #20,435. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #20,435
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,185
- “S” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - cantar
Corpus desk
Index PT-sing · sing · Portuguese
sing · rank #20,435 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #20,435
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,185
- PHOTO-FINISH saturação
Nearest frequency peer: saturação (-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 “sing”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- refrescar
refrescar
79,579 corpus weight
- regência
regência
79,577 corpus weight
- rodapé
rodapé
79,570 corpus weight
- saturação
saturação
79,567 corpus weight
- sing
sing
79,566 corpus weight
- stream
stream
79,560 corpus weight
What this shows “sing” 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 | sing |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #20,435 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “sing”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around sing, averb. Corpus frequency is #20,435 among 1,185 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "cantar".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for sing, with forms such as "isng", "sign", and "singg". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "sun", "site", "sono", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 sing, spelled S-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1cantar
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how sing appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
to sing a song
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- isng
- sign
- singg
- sinng
- snig
- ssing
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of sing - 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 "sing", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).