spotlight
/ˈspɑtˌlaɪt/
The verdict
“spotlight” has 15 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #47,099. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #47,099
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,185
- “S” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - holofote
Corpus desk
Index PT-spotlight · spotlight · Portuguese
spotlight · rank #47,099 · 15 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #47,099
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,185
- PHOTO-FINISH sociológico
Nearest frequency peer: sociológico (-3 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 “spotlight”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- sacristia
sacristia
52,931 corpus weight
- serviçal
serviçal
52,915 corpus weight
- sociológico
sociológico
52,905 corpus weight
- spotlight
spotlight
52,902 corpus weight
- suu
suu
52,890 corpus weight
- travão
travão
52,874 corpus weight
What this shows “spotlight” está entre estes pares FrequencyWords; a profundidade de typo mede-se à parte no gráfico de distância de edição.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | spotlight |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈspɑtˌlaɪt/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #47,099 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “spotlight”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around spotlight (IPA /ˈspɑtˌlaɪt/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #47,099 among 1,185 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "holofote".
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for spotlight, with forms such as "psotlight", "soptlight", and "spoltight". 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. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Portuguese form is spotlight, spelled S-P-O-T-L-I-G-H-T.
Definition
- 1holofote
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- psotlight
- soptlight
- spoltight
- spotilght
- spotlgiht
- spotligght
- spotlighht
- spotlightt
- spotligth
- spotlihgt
- spotllight
- spottlight
- sppotlight
- sptolight
- sspotlight
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of spotlight - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 "spotlight", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (15 here; floor ≥5).