difícil
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#412
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
difícil is anPortugueseadj. It means: que não é fácil; que exige esforço para ser feito; trabalhoso, laborioso, árduo It ranks #412 in Portuguese word frequency.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | difícil |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #412 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for difícil is 7 letters long, classified as anadj. Corpus data places it at rank #412 in overall Portuguese word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for difícil, with forms such as "ddifícil", "dfiícil", and "difcíil". 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 difícil, spelled D-I-F-Í-C-I-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1que não é fácil; que exige esforço para ser feito; trabalhoso, laborioso, árduo
- 2que demanda esforço intelectual para ser entendido; complicado, obscuro
- 3que não se deixa seduzir facilmente
- 4que não é próspero; duro de viver
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ddifícil,dfiícil,difcíil,diffícil,difíccil,difícill,difícli,difíicl,diífcil,idfícil
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for difícil
Misspelling Variants of "difícil"
Frequency rank: #412 in Portuguese
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Nearby Portuguese words
Other entries that begin with the letter D in our Portuguese index: