threat
/ˈθɹet/ (australiano)
The verdict
“threat” has 9 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #32,792. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #32,792
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 917
- “T” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - ameaça, no sentido de expressar a intenção de agredir ou punir alguém
Corpus desk
Index PT-threat · threat · Portuguese
threat · rank #32,792 · 9 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #32,792
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 917
- PHOTO-FINISH thug
Nearest frequency peer: thug (+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 “threat”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- sunrise
sunrise
67,216 corpus weight
- talo
talo
67,213 corpus weight
- threat
threat
67,209 corpus weight
- thug
thug
67,208 corpus weight
- treinam
treinam
67,203 corpus weight
- tromba
tromba
67,202 corpus weight
What this shows “threat” 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 | threat |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈθɹet/ (australiano) |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #32,792 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “threat”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around threat (IPA /ˈθɹet/ (australiano)), anoun. Corpus frequency is #32,792 among 917 “T” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for threat, with forms such as "htreat", "therat", and "thhreat". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "that", "thread", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Portuguese form is threat, spelled T-H-R-E-A-T.
Definition
- 1ameaça, no sentido de expressar a intenção de agredir ou punir alguém
- 2ameaça, no sentido de perigo iminente ou potencial
- 3algo ou alguém que é considerado um perigo ou ameaça
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how threat appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats.
Many genes with reproductive roles also have antibacterial and immune functions, which indicate that the threat of microbial attack on the sperm or egg may be a major influence on rapid evolution during reproduction.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- htreat
- therat
- thhreat
- thraet
- threatt
- threta
- thrreat
- trheat
- tthreat
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of threat - 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 "threat", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).