empatia

noun

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The verdict

“empatia” has 9 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #12,050. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#12,050
frequency rank, Portuguese
1,279
“E” headwords
9
tracked misspellings
1
confusable pair

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - comunhão positiva pela qual um sujeito se identifica com outro

Corpus desk

Index PT-empatia · empatia · Portuguese

empatia · rank #12,050 · 9 variants · 1 confusable

  • FREQ-MID #12,050
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
  • VAR-MID 9 variants
  • BOOK-MID 1,279
  • PHOTO-FINISH embarcar

Nearest frequency peer: embarcar (-1 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.

Pares de rank junto ao íman ortográfico “empatia”

Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho

corpus weight

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

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

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

empatia vs empatar
71% similar

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

Key facts for empatia
PropertyValue
Headwordempatia
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
Letters7
Frequency rank#12,050
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs1
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequência do íman ortográfico “empatia”

A frequência vai do punhado de palavras do dia a dia (esquerda) à cauda longa quase nunca usada (direita).empatiacai aqui:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Os ticks avançam em logaritmo; cada um é da ordem de dez vezes mais raro. Na mesma faixa de raridade aparecem “embarcar” (#12,049), “escolho” (#12,053), “ecrã” (#12,046). Entre 1,279 lemas com “E”, “empatia” fica em #12,050. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 9 spelling variants around empatia, anoun. Corpus frequency is #12,050 among 1,279 “E” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for empatia, with forms such as "emaptia", "emmpatia", and "empaita". 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 also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "empatar", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Portuguese form is empatia, spelled E-M-P-A-T-I-A.

Definition

  1. 1
    comunhão positiva pela qual um sujeito se identifica com outro
  2. 2
    capacidade de um ator se meter na pele das personagens que interpreta

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. No mundo virtual, as empresas precisam de plataformas que potencializem a colaboração, a empatia e a humanização que nós tínhamos no escritório.

This word in other languages

empathy(English)empatía(Español)empathie(Français)Empathie(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • emaptia
  • emmpatia
  • empaita
  • empatai
  • empattia
  • emppatia
  • emptaia
  • epmatia
  • mepatia

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of empatia - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

emaptia2emmpatia1empaita2empatai2empattia1emppatia1emptaia2epmatia2
Edit distance from "empatia"

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 "empatia"?
"empatia" is spelled E-M-P-A-T-I-A.
What does "empatia" mean?
As a noun, "empatia" means: comunhão positiva pela qual um sujeito se identifica com outro
What words are commonly confused with "empatia"?
"empatia" is commonly confused with "empatar". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "empatia" come from?
"empatia" 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 "empatia", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

escolho#12,053espinha#12,056cunhada#12,030infarto#12,085

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).

dobrar9 variantsgestor9 variantsgolden9 variantshostil9 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list