evidência
The verdict
“evidência” is a regularly-used Portuguese word, ranked #3,987 in Portuguese word frequency and used as a noun.
- #3,987
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 9
- letters
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - qualidade daquilo que confirma (uma ação, uma hipótese, etc.)
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 | evidência |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #3,987 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “evidência” sits in Portuguese frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for evidência is 9 letters long, classified as a noun. Corpus data places it at rank #3,987 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for evidência, with forms such as "eivdência", "evdiência", and "eviddência". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "exigência", "evidenciar", "evidence", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 evidência, spelled E-V-I-D-Ê-N-C-I-A.
Definition
- 1qualidade daquilo que confirma (uma ação, uma hipótese, etc.)
- 2qualidade daquilo que está famoso
- 3indicação, indício, sinal
- 4afirmação de caráter tautológico, cuja verdade resulta dos próprios termos em que foi proposta
- 5vestígio que ajuda a reconstruir um crime durante uma investigação
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: eivdência,evdiência,eviddência,evidnêcia,evidêcnia,evidêncai,evidênccia,evidênica,evidênncia,eviêdncia,evvidência,veidência
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of evidência - 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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Using “evidência”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is E-V-I-D-Ê-N-C-I-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Don't mix it up with “exigência” - see the side-by-side comparison. evidência vs exigência
- 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.