AVC
/ɐ.ve.ˈse/
The verdict
“AVC” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #18,777) as an abbreviation. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #18,777
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,900
- “A” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - acidente vascular cerebral
Corpus desk
Index PT-avc · AVC · Portuguese
AVC · rank #18,777 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #18,777
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,900
- PHOTO-FINISH autoritário
Nearest frequency peer: autoritário (-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.
Vizinhos de frequência do confusável “AVC”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- atencioso
atencioso
81,228 corpus weight
- autoritário
autoritário
81,225 corpus weight
- AVC
AVC
81,224 corpus weight
- averiguar
averiguar
81,223 corpus weight
- bichinho
bichinho
81,219 corpus weight
- bioma
bioma
81,218 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “AVC” 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 | AVC |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Abbreviation |
| IPA | /ɐ.ve.ˈse/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #18,777 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “AVC”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for AVC is neighbouring look-alikes ("avô", "ave", …), not just typos; it is anabbreviation pronounced /ɐ.ve.ˈse/. Frequency #18,777 among 1,900 “A” headwords. Gloss: "acidente vascular cerebral".
AVC 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, "avô", "ave", "axe", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is AVC, spelled A-V-C.
Definition
- 1acidente vascular cerebral
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how AVC appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
O AVC é uma emergência médica e possui tratamento se o paciente for rapidamente encaminhado para um hospital adequado.
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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Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).