sortear
/suɾ.ˈtjaɾ/
The verdict
“sortear” has 10 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #34,926. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #34,926
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,185
- “S” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - distribuir por sorteio, por rifa
Corpus desk
Index PT-sortear · sortear · Portuguese
sortear · rank #34,926 · 10 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #34,926
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,185
- PHOTO-FINISH solúvel
Nearest frequency peer: solúvel (-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 “sortear”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- serrão
serrão
65,086 corpus weight
- sociedad
sociedad
65,078 corpus weight
- solúvel
solúvel
65,076 corpus weight
- sortear
sortear
65,075 corpus weight
- speech
speech
65,073 corpus weight
- subornar
subornar
65,067 corpus weight
What this shows “sortear” 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 | sortear |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /suɾ.ˈtjaɾ/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #34,926 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “sortear”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around sortear (IPA /suɾ.ˈtjaɾ/), averb. Corpus frequency is #34,926 among 1,185 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for sortear, with forms such as "osrtear", "soretar", and "sorrtear". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "sorteio", "sorte", "soltar", 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 is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Portuguese form is sortear, spelled S-O-R-T-E-A-R.
Definition
- 1distribuir por sorteio, por rifa
- 2dividir em lotes, por sortes
Synonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- osrtear
- soretar
- sorrtear
- sortaer
- sortearr
- sortera
- sorttear
- sotrear
- srotear
- ssortear
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of sortear - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "sortear", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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 (10 here; floor ≥5).