colegiado
The verdict
“colegiado” is a moderately-common Portuguese word, ranked #38,183 in Portuguese word frequency and used as a noun.
- #38,183
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 9
- letters
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - órgão dirigente de um grupo ou agremiação
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 | colegiado |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #38,183 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “colegiado” sits in Portuguese frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for colegiado is 9 letters long, classified as a noun. Corpus data places it at rank #38,183 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "órgão dirigente de um grupo ou agremiação".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for colegiado, with forms such as "ccolegiado", "cloegiado", and "coelgiado". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "colégio", 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 its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Portuguese form is colegiado, spelled C-O-L-E-G-I-A-D-O.
Definition
- 1órgão dirigente de um grupo ou agremiação
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccolegiado,cloegiado,coelgiado,colegaido,coleggiado,colegiaddo,colegiaod,colegidao,coleigado,colgeiado,collegiado,oclegiado
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of colegiado - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 “colegiado”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is C-O-L-E-G-I-A-D-O - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Don't mix it up with “colégio” - see the side-by-side comparison. colegiado vs colégio
- 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.