APA
The verdict
“APA” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #23,196) as an abbreviation. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #23,196
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,900
- “A” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - área de proteção ambiental
Corpus desk
Index PT-apa · APA · Portuguese
APA · rank #23,196 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #23,196
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,900
- PHOTO-FINISH andavam
Nearest frequency peer: andavam (-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.
Vizinhos de frequência do confusável “APA”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- ajustado
ajustado
76,813 corpus weight
- alter
alter
76,812 corpus weight
- andavam
andavam
76,808 corpus weight
- APA
APA
76,805 corpus weight
- artrite
artrite
76,798 corpus weight
- automação
automação
76,793 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “APA” face aos lemas portugueses mais próximos por rank, não um reprint da secretária de confusáveis.
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 | APA |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Abbreviation |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #23,196 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “APA”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for APA is neighbouring look-alikes ("As", "ar", …), not just typos; it is anabbreviation. Frequency #23,196 among 1,900 “A” headwords. 3 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
APA has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "As", "ar", "at", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 APA, spelled A-P-A.
Definition
- 1área de proteção ambiental
- 2Agência Portuguesa do Ambiente
- 3Associação para Proteção aos Animais
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how APA appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Com 7.700 hectares, a APA Gericinó-Mendanha abrange os municípios de Nova Iguaçu , Mesquita e Rio de Janeiro (bairros da zona oeste).
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 "APA", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).