cúmplice
The verdict
“cúmplice” is a moderately-common Portuguese word, ranked #15,779 in Portuguese word frequency and used as an adjective.
- #15,779
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 8
- letters
- 12
- tracked misspellings
Dominant Wiktionary sense: aquele que auxiliou ou acobertou alguém em práticas ilícitas ou criminosas
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cúmplice |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ˈkũ.pli.sɨ/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #15,779 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “cúmplice” sits in Portuguese frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for cúmplice is 8 letters long, classified as an adjective, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈkũ.pli.sɨ/. Corpus data places it at rank #15,779 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "aquele que auxiliou ou acobertou alguém em práticas ilícitas ou criminosas".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for cúmplice, with forms such as "ccúmplice", "cmúplice", and "cúmlpice". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Portuguese form is cúmplice, spelled C-Ú-M-P-L-I-C-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1aquele que auxiliou ou acobertou alguém em práticas ilícitas ou criminosas
Synonyms
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccúmplice,cmúplice,cúmlpice,cúmmplice,cúmpilce,cúmplcie,cúmplicce,cúmpliec,cúmpllice,cúmpplice,cúpmlice,úcmplice
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cúmplice — measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
Edit distance from "cúmplice"
Frequency rank: #15,779 in Portuguese
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Using “cúmplice”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is C-Ú-M-P-L-I-C-E — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ˈkũ.pli.sɨ/ (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
Nearby Portuguese words
Other entries that begin with the letter C in our Portuguese index: