Somália
The verdict
“Somália” has 9 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #12,150. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #12,150
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,185
- “S” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - país da África, em que o somali é a língua oficial; nome oficial: الصومال
Corpus desk
Index PT-somalia · Somália · Portuguese
Somália · rank #12,150 · 9 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #12,150
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,185
- PHOTO-FINISH tocam
Nearest frequency peer: tocam (+4 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 “Somália”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- Sales
Sales
87,858 corpus weight
- saque
saque
87,857 corpus weight
- Somália
Somália
87,851 corpus weight
- tocam
tocam
87,847 corpus weight
- touch
touch
87,845 corpus weight
- transplante
transplante
87,843 corpus weight
What this shows “Somália” está entre estes pares FrequencyWords; a profundidade de typo mede-se à parte no gráfico de distância de edição.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Somália |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #12,150 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “Somália”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around Somália, anoun. Corpus frequency is #12,150 among 1,185 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "país da África, em que o somali é a língua oficial; nome oficial: الصومال".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for Somália, with forms such as "osmália", "smoália", and "somláia". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Portuguese form is Somália, spelled S-O-M-Á-L-I-A.
Definition
- 1país da África, em que o somali é a língua oficial; nome oficial: الصومال
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Somália appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
A Somália surgiu em 1960, quando dois protetorados (um italiano e outro britânico) uniram-se.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- osmália
- smoália
- somláia
- sommália
- somáila
- somálai
- somállia
- soámlia
- ssomália
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Somália - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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).