tocou
/to.ˈko/
The verdict
“tocou” has 6 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #4,025. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #4,025
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 917
- “T” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 19
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - terceira pessoa do singular do pretérito perfeito do indicativo do verbo tocar
Corpus desk
Index PT-tocou · tocou · Portuguese
tocou · rank #4,025 · 6 variants · 19 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #4,025
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 19 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 917
- PHOTO-FINISH substituir
Nearest frequency peer: substituir (-2 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 “tocou”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- recepção
recepção
95,982 corpus weight
- salvo
salvo
95,981 corpus weight
- substituir
substituir
95,978 corpus weight
- tocou
tocou
95,976 corpus weight
- treinar
treinar
95,973 corpus weight
- acusação
acusação
95,969 corpus weight
What this shows “tocou” 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 | tocou |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /to.ˈko/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #4,025 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 19 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “tocou”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around tocou (IPA /to.ˈko/), averb. Corpus frequency is #4,025 among 917 “T” headwords. Dominant gloss: "terceira pessoa do singular do pretérito perfeito do indicativo do verbo tocar".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for tocou, with forms such as "otcou", "tcoou", and "toccou". 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 19 confusable-pair relationships, "todo", "topo", "tomo", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct Portuguese form is tocou, spelled T-O-C-O-U.
Definition
- 1terceira pessoa do singular do pretérito perfeito do indicativo do verbo tocar
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- otcou
- tcoou
- toccou
- tocuo
- toocu
- ttocou
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of tocou - 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 "tocou", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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 (6 here; floor ≥5).