urânio
/u.ˈɾɐ.nju/
The verdict
“urânio” has 7 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #16,420. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #16,420
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 147
- “U” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - elemento químico de símbolo U, possui o número atômico 92 e massa atômica relativa 238,0289 u; é um metal radioativo de transição interna (actinídeo), de cor prata acinzentado brilhante, encontrado...
Corpus desk
Index PT-uranio · urânio · Portuguese
urânio · rank #16,420 · 7 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #16,420
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 147
- PHOTO-FINISH walk
Nearest frequency peer: walk (+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 “urânio”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- tigela
tigela
83,594 corpus weight
- transmissor
transmissor
83,588 corpus weight
- urânio
urânio
83,581 corpus weight
- walk
walk
83,577 corpus weight
- xerife
xerife
83,574 corpus weight
- abdominal
abdominal
83,572 corpus weight
What this shows “urânio” 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 | urânio |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /u.ˈɾɐ.nju/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #16,420 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “urânio”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around urânio (IPA /u.ˈɾɐ.nju/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #16,420 among 147 “U” headwords. Dominant gloss: "elemento químico de símbolo U, possui o número atômico 92 e massa atômica relativa 238,0289 u; é um metal radioativo de transição interna (actinídeo), de cor prata acinzentado brilhante, encontrado...".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for urânio, with forms such as "ruânio", "urnâio", and "urrânio". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "Urano", "urbano", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Portuguese form is urânio, spelled U-R-Â-N-I-O.
Definition
- 1elemento químico de símbolo U, possui o número atômico 92 e massa atômica relativa 238,0289 u; é um metal radioativo de transição interna (actinídeo), de cor prata acinzentado brilhante, encontrado sólido na temperatura ambiente; é obtido principalmente de minérios como a uraninita, a euxenita e a carbotita; sua utilização mais importante é para produção de energia, onde o seu isótopo ²³⁵U é utilizado numa reação de fissão auto-sustentada
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ruânio
- urnâio
- urrânio
- urâino
- urânnio
- urânoi
- uârnio
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of urânio - 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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).