capitania
/kɐ.pi.tɐ.ˈni.ɐ/
The verdict
“capitania” has 12 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #30,863. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #30,863
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 3,948
- “C” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - divisões territoriais do período colonial do Brasil.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | capitania |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /kɐ.pi.tɐ.ˈni.ɐ/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #30,863 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “capitania” sits in Portuguese frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around capitania (IPA /kɐ.pi.tɐ.ˈni.ɐ/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #30,863 among 3,948 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for capitania, with forms such as "acpitania", "caiptania", and "capiatnia". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Portuguese form is capitania, spelled C-A-P-I-T-A-N-I-A.
Definition
- 1divisões territoriais do período colonial do Brasil.
- 2divisões administrativas dos antigos territórios ultramarinos do Império Espanhol e do Império Português, à frente das quais estava um capitão-general.
- 3divisão administrativa da Marinha com funções de polícia e controle dos portos.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- acpitania
- caiptania
- capiatnia
- capitaina
- capitanai
- capitannia
- capitnaia
- capittania
- cappitania
- captiania
- ccapitania
- cpaitania
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of capitania - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 “capitania”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is C-A-P-I-T-A-N-I-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /kɐ.pi.tɐ.ˈni.ɐ/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more Portuguese words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Portuguese words
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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.