espiritual
/iʃ.pi.ɾi.ˈtwaɫ/
The verdict
“espiritual” is a regularly-used Portuguese word, ranked #4,558 in Portuguese word frequency and used as an adjective.
- #4,558
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 10
- letters
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - relativo ou pertencente ao espírito (por oposição a matéria)
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | espiritual |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /iʃ.pi.ɾi.ˈtwaɫ/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #4,558 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “espiritual” sits in Portuguese frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for espiritual is 10 letters long, classified as an adjective, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /iʃ.pi.ɾi.ˈtwaɫ/. Corpus data places it at rank #4,558 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for espiritual, with forms such as "epsiritual", "esipritual", and "espiirtual". 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, "espírita", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Portuguese form is espiritual, spelled E-S-P-I-R-I-T-U-A-L.
Definition
- 1relativo ou pertencente ao espírito (por oposição a matéria)
- 2incorpóreo
- 3imaterial
- 4que diz respeito à religião ou à consciência
- 5místico
- 6sobrenatural
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: epsiritual,esipritual,espiirtual,espiritaul,espirittual,espirituall,espiritula,espiriutal,espirritual,espirtiual,esppiritual,espriitual,esspiritual,sepiritual
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of espiritual - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Using “espiritual”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is E-S-P-I-R-I-T-U-A-L - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /iʃ.pi.ɾi.ˈtwaɫ/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “espírita” - see the side-by-side comparison. espiritual vs espírita
- Browse more Portuguese words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Portuguese words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.