viga
The verdict
“viga” has 5 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #32,021. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #32,021
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 501
- “V” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - peça de sustentação horizontal, utilizada em construções; pode ser de madeira, de concreto armado ou de aço
Corpus desk
Index PT-viga · viga · Portuguese
viga · rank #32,021 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #32,021
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-MID 501
- PHOTO-FINISH verniz
Nearest frequency peer: verniz (-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.
Pares de rank junto ao íman ortográfico “viga”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- venenoso
venenoso
67,984 corpus weight
- veraneio
veraneio
67,983 corpus weight
- verbete
verbete
67,982 corpus weight
- verniz
verniz
67,981 corpus weight
- viga
viga
67,980 corpus weight
- virtuoso
virtuoso
67,975 corpus weight
What this shows “viga” 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 | viga |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #32,021 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “viga”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around viga, anoun. Corpus frequency is #32,021 among 501 “V” headwords. Dominant gloss: "peça de sustentação horizontal, utilizada em construções; pode ser de madeira, de concreto armado ou de aço".
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for viga, with forms such as "ivga", "vgia", and "viag". 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, "viu", "vir", "Vis", 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 viga, spelled V-I-G-A.
Definition
- 1peça de sustentação horizontal, utilizada em construções; pode ser de madeira, de concreto armado ou de aço
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how viga appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Rápido! Estas vigas não irão sustentar esse peso todo por muito tempo!
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ivga
- vgia
- viag
- vigga
- vviga
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of viga - 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 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).