tower
/ˈtaʊ.ə(ɹ)/
The verdict
“tower” has 7 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #21,608. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #21,608
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 917
- “T” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 10
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - torre
Corpus desk
Index PT-tower · tower · Portuguese
tower · rank #21,608 · 7 variants · 10 confusables
- FREQ-MID #21,608
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 917
- PHOTO-FINISH troll
Nearest frequency peer: troll (+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 “tower”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- suceder
suceder
78,404 corpus weight
- tapioca
tapioca
78,400 corpus weight
- temperado
temperado
78,398 corpus weight
- tower
tower
78,393 corpus weight
- troll
troll
78,389 corpus weight
- unificar
unificar
78,386 corpus weight
What this shows “tower” 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 | tower |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈtaʊ.ə(ɹ)/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #21,608 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “tower”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around tower (IPA /ˈtaʊ.ə(ɹ)/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #21,608 among 917 “T” headwords. Dominant gloss: "torre".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for tower, with forms such as "otwer", "toewr", and "towerr". 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 10 confusable-pair relationships, "town", "ter", "Tor", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is tower, spelled T-O-W-E-R.
Definition
- 1torre
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- otwer
- toewr
- towerr
- towre
- towwer
- ttower
- twoer
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of tower - 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
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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).