económico

Name: económico, Portuguese Word Data
Creator: Wiktionary
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

/i.ku.ˈnɔ.mi.ku/

//i.ku.ˈnɔ.mi.ku// adj

By PlainSpell · According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA) · analyzed September 3, 2026

The verdict

“económico” has 12 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #7,274. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#7,274
frequency rank, Portuguese: 1,279
“E” headwords: 12
tracked misspellings: 1
confusable pair

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - relativo à economia

Corpus desk

Index PT-economico · económico · Portuguese

económico · rank #7,274 · 12 variants · 1 confusable

FREQ-COMMON #7,274
LEN-LONG 9 letters
VOW-5 5 vowels
CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
VAR-MID 12 variants
BOOK-MID 1,279
PHOTO-FINISH desaparecido

Nearest frequency peer: desaparecido (-5 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.

corporação

92,736
death

92,734
dem

92,733
desaparecido

92,732
económico

92,727
exclusão

92,719

What this shows “económico” está entre estes pares FrequencyWords; a profundidade de typo mede-se à parte no gráfico de distância de edição.

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

económico vs ecológico

78% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for económico
Property	Value
Headword	económico
Language	Portuguese
Part of speech	Adjective
IPA	/i.ku.ˈnɔ.mi.ku/
Letters	9
Frequency rank	#7,274
Misspellings tracked	12
Confusable pairs	1
Source	Wiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequência do íman ortográfico “económico”

Esta escala corre do núcleo do português quotidiano (esquerda) até o rastro de formas raras (direita).económicocai aqui:

#7,274

#1#100#1K#10K#100K

← used constantlyrarely used →

A escala é logarítmica (cada marca ≈ 10× mais rara). Na mesma faixa de raridade aparecem “desaparecido” (#7,269), “dem” (#7,268), “death” (#7,267). Entre 1,279 lemas com “E”, “económico” fica em #7,274. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 12 spelling variants around económico (IPA /i.ku.ˈnɔ.mi.ku/), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #7,274 among 1,279 “E” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for económico, with forms such as "ceonómico", "ecconómico", and "ecnoómico". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "ecológico", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Portuguese form is económico, spelled E-C-O-N-Ó-M-I-C-O.

Definition

1
relativo à economia
2
que gasta o menos possível; poupado
3
barato
4
diz-se do ano de gerência administrativa

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how económico appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

Enquanto sistema económico, o fascismo é socialismo com um verniz capitalista

This word in other languages

economic(English)económico(Español)wirtschaftlich(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

ceonómico
ecconómico
ecnoómico
econmóico
econnómico
econóimco
económcio
económicco
económioc
económmico
ecoónmico
eocnómico

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of económico - 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.

Edit distance from "económico"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "económico"?

"económico" is spelled E-C-O-N-Ó-M-I-C-O. The IPA pronunciation is /i.ku.ˈnɔ.mi.ku/.

What does "económico" mean?

As an adjective, "económico" means: relativo à economia

What words are commonly confused with "económico"?

"económico" is commonly confused with "ecológico". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.

How do you pronounce "económico"?

The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "económico" is /i.ku.ˈnɔ.mi.ku/. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.

What language does "económico" come from?

"económico" is a Portuguese word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.

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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "económico", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).

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