sismo

noun

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The verdict

“sismo” has 7 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #27,672. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#27,672
frequency rank, Portuguese
1,185
“S” headwords
7
tracked misspellings
13
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - designação científica do terremoto

Corpus desk

Index PT-sismo · sismo · Portuguese

sismo · rank #27,672 · 7 variants · 13 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #27,672
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 13 pairs
  • VAR-MID 7 variants
  • BOOK-MID 1,185
  • PHOTO-FINISH sociável

Nearest frequency peer: sociável (+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 “sismo”

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

corpus weight

What this shows “sismo” 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).

sismo vs sumo
60% similar
sismo vs sito
60% similar
sismo vs sítio
40% similar

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

Key facts for sismo
PropertyValue
Headwordsismo
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
Letters5
Frequency rank#27,672
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs13
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequência do íman ortográfico “sismo”

A frequência vai do punhado de palavras do dia a dia (esquerda) à cauda longa quase nunca usada (direita).sismocai 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 “sociável” (#27,674), “sonegação” (#27,676), “subsequentemente” (#27,681). Entre 1,185 lemas com “S”, “sismo” fica em #27,672. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 7 spelling variants around sismo, anoun. Corpus frequency is #27,672 among 1,185 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "designação científica do terremoto".

Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for sismo, with forms such as "issmo", "simso", and "sismmo". 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 13 confusable-pair relationships, "sumo", "sito", "sítio", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Portuguese form is sismo, spelled S-I-S-M-O.

Definition

  1. 1
    designação científica do terremoto

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. Subiu para 156 o número de mortos pelo terremoto de magnitude 7 na escala Richter que sacudiu neste sábado, 20, a província central chinesa de Sichuan, a mesma na qual um sismo de 8 graus de magnitude causou 90 mil mortos há quase cinco anos.

This word in other languages

seísmo(Español)séisme(Français)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • issmo
  • simso
  • sismmo
  • sisom
  • sissmo
  • ssimo
  • ssismo

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of sismo - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

issmo2simso2sismmo1sisom2sissmo1ssimo2ssismo1
Edit distance from "sismo"

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 "sismo"?
"sismo" is spelled S-I-S-M-O.
What does "sismo" mean?
As a noun, "sismo" means: designação científica do terremoto
What words are commonly confused with "sismo"?
"sismo" is commonly confused with "sumo", "sito", "sítio". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "sismo" come from?
"sismo" 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 "sismo", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

regar#27,639Benta#27,753clair#27,787later#27,548

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).

coerção7 variantsJihad7 variantsfalir7 variantsplata7 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list