spark
The verdict
“spark” has 8 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #36,240. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #36,240
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,185
- “S” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 11
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - gerar
Corpus desk
Index PT-spark · spark · Portuguese
spark · rank #36,240 · 8 variants · 11 confusables
- FREQ-MID #36,240
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-MID 11 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,185
- PHOTO-FINISH ste
Nearest frequency peer: ste (+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 “spark”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- sideral
sideral
63,771 corpus weight
- soca
soca
63,767 corpus weight
- spark
spark
63,761 corpus weight
- ste
ste
63,759 corpus weight
- sumariamente
sumariamente
63,756 corpus weight
- sílica
sílica
63,751 corpus weight
What this shows “spark” 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 | spark |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #36,240 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “spark”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around spark, averb. Corpus frequency is #36,240 among 1,185 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "gerar".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for spark, with forms such as "psark", "saprk", and "spakr". 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 11 confusable-pair relationships, "star", "suar", "sport", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is spark, spelled S-P-A-R-K.
Definition
- 1gerar
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how spark appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
to spark controversy
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- psark
- saprk
- spakr
- sparkk
- sparrk
- sppark
- sprak
- sspark
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of spark - 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 "spark", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).