tombo
/ˈtõ.bu/
The verdict
“tombo” has 7 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #19,867. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #19,867
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 917
- “T” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - ato ou efeito de tombar; queda
Corpus desk
Index PT-tombo · tombo · Portuguese
tombo · rank #19,867 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,867
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 917
- PHOTO-FINISH Tor
Nearest frequency peer: Tor (+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 “tombo”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- storm
storm
80,144 corpus weight
- tombo
tombo
80,134 corpus weight
- Tor
Tor
80,132 corpus weight
- trevo
trevo
80,130 corpus weight
- tutelar
tutelar
80,128 corpus weight
- ui
ui
80,126 corpus weight
What this shows “tombo” 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 | tombo |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈtõ.bu/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #19,867 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “tombo”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around tombo (IPA /ˈtõ.bu/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #19,867 among 917 “T” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for tombo, with forms such as "otmbo", "tmobo", and "tobmo". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "topo", "tomé", "tomo", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 tombo, spelled T-O-M-B-O.
Definition
- 1ato ou efeito de tombar; queda
- 2inventário dos bens
- 3registro de coisas ou fatos relativos a uma especialidade, a uma região etc.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- otmbo
- tmobo
- tobmo
- tombbo
- tommbo
- tomob
- ttombo
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of tombo - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 "tombo", 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 (7 here; floor ≥5).