especiais

adj

Letters

9 characters

Frequency Rank

#1,673

in Portuguese word usage

Misspellings

12

tracked variants

Confusables

1

similar word pairs

especiais is anPortugueseadj. It means: plural de especial It ranks #1,673 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with especiaria.

Key facts for especiais
PropertyValue
Headwordespeciais
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechAdj
Letters9
Frequency rank#1,673
Misspellings tracked12
Confusable pairs1
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of especiais in Portuguese word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for especiais is 9 letters long, classified as anadj. Corpus data places it at rank #1,673 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "plural de especial".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for especiais, with forms such as "epseciais", "esepciais", and "espceiais". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "especiaria", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

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 especiais, spelled E-S-P-E-C-I-A-I-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    plural de especial

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: epseciais,esepciais,espceiais,especaiis,especciais,especiaiss,especiasi,especiias,espeicais,esppeciais,esspeciais,sepeciais

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for especiais

Misspelling Variants of "especiais"

epseciais9esepciais9espceiais9especaiis9especciais10especiaiss10especiasi9especiias9
Misspelling Variants of "especiais"

Frequency rank: #1,673 in Portuguese

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "especiais"?
"especiais" is spelled E-S-P-E-C-I-A-I-S.
What does "especiais" mean?
As an adj, "especiais" means: plural de especial
What words are commonly confused with "especiais"?
"especiais" is commonly confused with "especiaria". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "especiais" come from?
"especiais" is a Portuguese word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.