walk
The verdict
“walk” has 6 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #16,424. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #16,424
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 110
- “W” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 16
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - andar, caminhar, ir a pé
Corpus desk
Index PT-walk · walk · Portuguese
walk · rank #16,424 · 6 variants · 16 confusables
- FREQ-MID #16,424
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 16 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 110
- PHOTO-FINISH xerife
Nearest frequency peer: xerife (+3 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 “walk”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- 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
- alabama
alabama
83,563 corpus weight
What this shows “walk” 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 | walk |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #16,424 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 16 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “walk”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around walk, averb. Corpus frequency is #16,424 among 110 “W” headwords. Dominant gloss: "andar, caminhar, ir a pé".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for walk, with forms such as "awlk", "wakl", and "walkk". 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 16 confusable-pair relationships, "war", "was", "will", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Portuguese form is walk, spelled W-A-L-K.
Definition
- 1andar, caminhar, ir a pé
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how walk appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
He walked fast to the other side of the street.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- awlk
- wakl
- walkk
- wallk
- wlak
- wwalk
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of walk - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "walk", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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 (6 here; floor ≥5).