Uganda
/u.'gã.də/
The verdict
“Uganda” has 8 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #11,370. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #11,370
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 147
- “U” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 2, 2026) - país africano, faz fronteira com o Sudão, Quênia, Tanzânia, Ruanda e República Democrática do Congo; sua capital é Kampala
Corpus desk
Index PT-uganda · Uganda · Portuguese
Uganda · rank #11,370 · 8 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #11,370
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 147
- PHOTO-FINISH trocado
Nearest frequency peer: trocado (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “Uganda”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- terno
terno
88,638 corpus weight
- testemunhar
testemunhar
88,637 corpus weight
- trimestre
trimestre
88,633 corpus weight
- trocado
trocado
88,632 corpus weight
- Uganda
Uganda
88,631 corpus weight
- âncora
âncora
88,627 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “Uganda” sits against the nearest ranked Portuguese headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | Uganda |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /u.'gã.də/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #11,370 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Uganda” sits in Portuguese frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around Uganda (IPA /u.'gã.də/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #11,370 among 147 “U” headwords. Dominant gloss: "país africano, faz fronteira com o Sudão, Quênia, Tanzânia, Ruanda e República Democrática do Congo; sua capital é Kampala".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for Uganda, with forms such as "guanda", "uagnda", and "ugadna". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "umbanda", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is Uganda, spelled U-G-A-N-D-A.
Definition
- 1país africano, faz fronteira com o Sudão, Quênia, Tanzânia, Ruanda e República Democrática do Congo; sua capital é Kampala
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- guanda
- uagnda
- ugadna
- uganad
- ugandda
- ugannda
- ugganda
- ugnada
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Uganda - 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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of September 2, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Uganda", 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 (8 here; floor ≥5).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.