storm
/ˈstɔrm/
The verdict
“storm” has 8 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #19,857. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #19,857
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,185
- “S” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - tempestade, tormenta
Corpus desk
Index PT-storm · storm · Portuguese
storm · rank #19,857 · 8 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,857
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,185
- PHOTO-FINISH spot
Nearest frequency peer: spot (-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 “storm”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- 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
- tombo
tombo
80,134 corpus weight
What this shows “storm” 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 | storm |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈstɔrm/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #19,857 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “storm”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around storm (IPA /ˈstɔrm/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #19,857 among 1,185 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "tempestade, tormenta".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for storm, with forms such as "sotrm", "sstorm", and "stomr". 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. It also participates in 8 confusable-pair relationships, "suor", "som", "star", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Portuguese form is storm, spelled S-T-O-R-M.
Definition
- 1tempestade, tormenta
Synonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- sotrm
- sstorm
- stomr
- stormm
- storrm
- strom
- sttorm
- tsorm
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of storm - 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
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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).