Zimbabwe
/zim.ba.bwe/
The verdict
“Zimbabwe” has 12 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #19,601. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #19,601
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 42
- “Z” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Zimbábue
Corpus desk
Index PT-zimbabwe · Zimbabwe · Portuguese
Zimbabwe · rank #19,601 · 12 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,601
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 42
- PHOTO-FINISH zebra
Nearest frequency peer: zebra (-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 “Zimbabwe”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- 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
- ártico
ártico
80,398 corpus weight
What this shows “Zimbabwe” está entre estes pares FrequencyWords; a profundidade de typo mede-se à parte no gráfico de distância de edição.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Zimbabwe |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /zim.ba.bwe/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #19,601 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “Zimbabwe”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around Zimbabwe (IPA /zim.ba.bwe/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #19,601 among 42 “Z” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Zimbábue".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for Zimbabwe, with forms such as "izmbabwe", "zibmabwe", and "zimabbwe". 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. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 Zimbabwe, spelled Z-I-M-B-A-B-W-E.
Definition
- 1Zimbábue
Synonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- izmbabwe
- zibmabwe
- zimabbwe
- zimbabbwe
- zimbabew
- zimbabwwe
- zimbawbe
- zimbbabwe
- zimbbawe
- zimmbabwe
- zmibabwe
- zzimbabwe
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Zimbabwe - 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 "Zimbabwe", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).