APA
The verdict
“APA” is a moderately-common Portuguese word, ranked #23,196 in Portuguese word frequency and used as an abbreviation.
- #23,196
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 3
- letters
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - área de proteção ambiental
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) |
Where “APA” sits in Portuguese frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for APA is 3 letters long, classified as an abbreviation. Corpus data places it at rank #23,196 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
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
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 “APA”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is A-P-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Don't mix it up with “As” - see the side-by-side comparison. APA vs As
- Browse more Portuguese words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Portuguese words
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.