took
/tʊk/
The verdict
“took” has 5 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #40,361. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #40,361
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 917
- “T” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - pretérito do verbo take
Corpus desk
Index PT-took · took · Portuguese
took · rank #40,361 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #40,361
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-MID 917
- PHOTO-FINISH terrier
Nearest frequency peer: terrier (-4 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 “took”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- tale
tale
59,649 corpus weight
- tapado
tapado
59,648 corpus weight
- terrier
terrier
59,644 corpus weight
- took
took
59,640 corpus weight
- trapo
trapo
59,634 corpus weight
- tropicália
tropicália
59,632 corpus weight
What this shows “took” 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 | took |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /tʊk/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #40,361 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “took”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around took (IPA /tʊk/), averb. Corpus frequency is #40,361 among 917 “T” headwords. Dominant gloss: "pretérito do verbo take".
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for took, with forms such as "otok", "tok", and "toko". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "two", "Tor", "topo", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Portuguese form is took, spelled T-O-O-K.
Definition
- 1pretérito do verbo take
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- otok
- tok
- toko
- tookk
- ttook
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of took - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).