wait
/weɪt/
The verdict
“wait” has 5 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #19,594. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #19,594
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 110
- “W” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 18
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - espera
Corpus desk
Index PT-wait · wait · Portuguese
wait · rank #19,594 · 5 variants · 18 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,594
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 18 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-MID 110
- PHOTO-FINISH varrer
Nearest frequency peer: varrer (-5 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 “wait”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- térmico
térmico
80,416 corpus weight
- varrer
varrer
80,412 corpus weight
- wait
wait
80,407 corpus weight
- zap
zap
80,402 corpus weight
- zebra
zebra
80,401 corpus weight
- Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe
80,400 corpus weight
What this shows “wait” 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 | wait |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /weɪt/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #19,594 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 18 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “wait”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around wait (IPA /weɪt/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #19,594 among 110 “W” headwords. Dominant gloss: "espera".
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for wait, with forms such as "awit", "waitt", and "wati". 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 18 confusable-pair relationships, "war", "was", "Wal", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Portuguese form is wait, spelled W-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1espera
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- awit
- waitt
- wati
- wiat
- wwait
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of wait - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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).