adolescência
The verdict
“adolescência” has 17 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #5,907. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #5,907
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 4,352
- “A” headwords
- 17
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - período da vida que sucede a infância e se estende até o fim da puberdade, antecedendo a idade adulta
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | adolescência |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #5,907 |
| Misspellings tracked | 17 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “adolescência” sits in Portuguese frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 17 spelling variants around adolescência, anoun. Corpus frequency is #5,907 among 4,352 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "período da vida que sucede a infância e se estende até o fim da puberdade, antecedendo a idade adulta".
Our generated misspelling index lists 17 likely wrong-spelling variants for adolescência, with forms such as "addolescência", "adloescência", and "adoelscência". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is adolescência, spelled A-D-O-L-E-S-C-Ê-N-C-I-A.
Definition
- 1período da vida que sucede a infância e se estende até o fim da puberdade, antecedendo a idade adulta
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: addolescência,adloescência,adoelscência,adolecsência,adolesccência,adolescnêcia,adolescêcnia,adolescêncai,adolescênccia,adolescênica,adolescênncia,adolesscência,adolesêcncia,adollescência,adolsecência,aodlescência,daolescência
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of adolescência - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Using “adolescência”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is A-D-O-L-E-S-C-Ê-N-C-I-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.