spot
The verdict
“spot” has 6 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #19,856. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #19,856
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,185
- “S” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - mancha
Corpus desk
Index PT-spot · spot · Portuguese
spot · rank #19,856 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,856
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,185
- PHOTO-FINISH storm
Nearest frequency peer: storm (+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 “spot”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- Sibéria
Sibéria
80,155 corpus weight
- sobrado
sobrado
80,153 corpus weight
- sobrar
sobrar
80,152 corpus weight
- sonoro
sonoro
80,148 corpus weight
- spot
spot
80,145 corpus weight
- storm
storm
80,144 corpus weight
What this shows “spot” 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 | spot |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #19,856 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “spot”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around spot, anoun. Corpus frequency is #19,856 among 1,185 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for spot, with forms such as "psot", "sopt", and "spott". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "stop", "suor", "supor", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 spot, spelled S-P-O-T.
Definition
- 1mancha
- 2lâmpada
- 3local
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how spot appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
X marks the spot
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- psot
- sopt
- spott
- sppot
- spto
- sspot
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of spot - 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 "spot", 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).