epidemia
/e.pi.dɨ.ˈmi.ɐ/
The verdict
“epidemia” has 10 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #9,332. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #9,332
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,279
- “E” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - ocorrência repentina de muitos casos de uma doença
Corpus desk
Index PT-epidemia · epidemia · Portuguese
epidemia · rank #9,332 · 10 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,332
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,279
- PHOTO-FINISH escassez
Nearest frequency peer: escassez (+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 “epidemia”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- egoísta
egoísta
90,672 corpus weight
- Einstein
Einstein
90,671 corpus weight
- epidemia
epidemia
90,669 corpus weight
- escassez
escassez
90,668 corpus weight
- especialida…
especialidade
90,667 corpus weight
- estrutural
estrutural
90,666 corpus weight
What this shows “epidemia” está entre estes pares FrequencyWords; a profundidade de typo mede-se à parte no gráfico de distância de edição.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | epidemia |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /e.pi.dɨ.ˈmi.ɐ/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #9,332 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “epidemia”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around epidemia (IPA /e.pi.dɨ.ˈmi.ɐ/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #9,332 among 1,279 “E” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for epidemia, with forms such as "eipdemia", "epdiemia", and "epiddemia". 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. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Portuguese form is epidemia, spelled E-P-I-D-E-M-I-A.
Definition
- 1ocorrência repentina de muitos casos de uma doença
- 2aumento rápido na ocorrência de algo
- 3crime que consiste em causar epidemia, segundo o Artigo 267 do Código Penal Brasileiro de 1940
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how epidemia appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
A pena para o crime de epidemia é de 10 a 15 anos de reclusão e pode ser agravada em até o dobro se houver como resultado a morte de alguém. Se o crime for culposo a pena aplicada é detenção de um a dois anos, ou, se resulta morte, de dois a quatro anos.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- eipdemia
- epdiemia
- epiddemia
- epideima
- epidemai
- epidemmia
- epidmeia
- epiedmia
- eppidemia
- peidemia
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of epidemia - 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.
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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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).