academia
The verdict
“academia” has 10 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #1,665. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,665
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,900
- “A” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - sociedade científica, literária ou artística cujo estabelecimento tem autoridade pública
Corpus desk
Index PT-academia · academia · Portuguese
academia · rank #1,665 · 10 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,665
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,900
- PHOTO-FINISH técnica
Nearest frequency peer: técnica (-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 “academia”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- terceira
terceira
98,340 corpus weight
- tocar
tocar
98,339 corpus weight
- técnica
técnica
98,338 corpus weight
- academia
academia
98,336 corpus weight
- competição
competição
98,333 corpus weight
- comportamen…
comportamento
98,332 corpus weight
What this shows “academia” 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 | academia |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #1,665 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “academia”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around academia, anoun. Corpus frequency is #1,665 among 1,900 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for academia, with forms such as "aacdemia", "acaddemia", and "acadeima". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "academic", "acadêmico", 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 best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Portuguese form is academia, spelled A-C-A-D-E-M-I-A.
Definition
- 1sociedade científica, literária ou artística cujo estabelecimento tem autoridade pública
- 2lugar docente onde se ensina aos alunos que querem preparar-se para uma carreira ou profissão
- 3sociedade de homens de letras, sábios e artistas
- 4brincadeira infantil, amarelinha
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how academia appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
A Academia Brasileira de Cinema realiza hoje sua grande festa, no Rio.
Até aí, tudo bem, o que veio depois é único na história da Academia de Hollywood.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aacdemia
- acaddemia
- acadeima
- academai
- academmia
- acadmeia
- acaedmia
- accademia
- acdaemia
- caademia
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of academia - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "academia", 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 (10 here; floor ≥5).