sustentado
The verdict
“sustentado” has 15 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #16,886. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #16,886
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,185
- “S” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - algo ou alguém que se sustentou
Corpus desk
Index PT-sustentado · sustentado · Portuguese
sustentado · rank #16,886 · 15 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #16,886
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,185
- PHOTO-FINISH sós
Nearest frequency peer: sós (+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 “sustentado”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- sanidade
sanidade
83,127 corpus weight
- sanção
sanção
83,125 corpus weight
- sustentado
sustentado
83,115 corpus weight
- sós
sós
83,114 corpus weight
- veredicto
veredicto
83,100 corpus weight
- verme
verme
83,099 corpus weight
What this shows “sustentado” 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 | sustentado |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #16,886 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “sustentado”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around sustentado, anadjective. Corpus frequency is #16,886 among 1,185 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for sustentado, with forms such as "ssustentado", "ssutentado", and "susetntado". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "sustento", "sustentar", "sustentação", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Portuguese form is sustentado, spelled S-U-S-T-E-N-T-A-D-O.
Definition
- 1algo ou alguém que se sustentou
- 2que foi resguardado, apoiado
- 3diz-se daquele que admitiu ser sustentado financeiramente por outrem
- 4que permanece durante um tempo maior do que o normal, andamento
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how sustentado appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Filho sustentado pelos avós.
Esposa sustentada pelo marido.
Synonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ssustentado
- ssutentado
- susetntado
- susstentado
- sustenatdo
- sustenntado
- sustentaddo
- sustentaod
- sustentdao
- sustenttado
- sustetnado
- sustnetado
- susttentado
- sutsentado
- usstentado
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of sustentado - 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 "sustentado", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (15 here; floor ≥5).