wide
/waɪd/, /wɑed/ (Austrália)
The verdict
“wide” has 5 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #11,980. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #11,980
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 110
- “W” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 12
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - largo
Corpus desk
Index PT-wide · wide · Portuguese
wide · rank #11,980 · 5 variants · 12 confusables
- FREQ-MID #11,980
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 12 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-MID 110
- PHOTO-FINISH violar
Nearest frequency peer: violar (-2 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 “wide”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- solicitado
solicitado
88,028 corpus weight
- traficante
traficante
88,027 corpus weight
- traçar
traçar
88,025 corpus weight
- violar
violar
88,023 corpus weight
- wide
wide
88,021 corpus weight
- always
always
88,012 corpus weight
What this shows “wide” 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 | wide |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /waɪd/, /wɑed/ (Austrália) |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #11,980 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “wide”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around wide (IPA /waɪd/, /wɑed/ (Austrália)), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #11,980 among 110 “W” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for wide, with forms such as "iwde", "wdie", and "widde". 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 12 confusable-pair relationships, "wir", "will", "wild", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Portuguese form is wide, spelled W-I-D-E.
Definition
- 1largo
- 2extenso
- 3vasto
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- iwde
- wdie
- widde
- wied
- wwide
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of wide - 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).