evidência

Name: evidência, Portuguese Word Data
Creator: Wiktionary
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

noun

By PlainSpell · According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA) · analyzed September 3, 2026

The verdict

“evidência” has 12 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #3,987. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#3,987
frequency rank, Portuguese: 1,279
“E” headwords: 12
tracked misspellings: 4
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - qualidade daquilo que confirma (uma ação, uma hipótese, etc.)

Corpus desk

Index PT-evidencia · evidência · Portuguese

evidência · rank #3,987 · 12 variants · 4 confusables

FREQ-COMMON #3,987
LEN-LONG 9 letters
VOW-5 5 vowels
CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
VAR-MID 12 variants
BOOK-MID 1,279
PHOTO-FINISH ficha

Nearest frequency peer: ficha (+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.

doze

96,019
esquerdo

96,016
evidência

96,014
ficha

96,013
frango

96,011
gostoso

96,009

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

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

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

evidência vs exigência

78% similar

evidência vs evidenciar

80% similar

evidência vs evidence

67% similar

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

Key facts for evidência
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)

Frequência do íman ortográfico “evidência”

Esta escala corre do núcleo do português quotidiano (esquerda) até o rastro de formas raras (direita).evidênciacai aqui:

#3,987

#1#100#1K#10K#100K

← used constantlyrarely used →

A escala é logarítmica (cada marca ≈ 10× mais rara). Na mesma faixa de raridade aparecem “ficha” (#3,988), “esquerdo” (#3,985), “frango” (#3,990). Entre 1,279 lemas com “E”, “evidência” fica em #3,987. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 12 spelling variants around evidência, anoun. Corpus frequency is #3,987 among 1,279 “E” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

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

1
qualidade daquilo que confirma (uma ação, uma hipótese, etc.)
2
qualidade daquilo que está famoso
3
indicação, indício, sinal
4
afirmação de caráter tautológico, cuja verdade resulta dos próprios termos em que foi proposta
5
vestígio que ajuda a reconstruir um crime durante uma investigação

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

evidência da ação bacteriana
estar em evidência

This word in other languages

evidence(English)

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.

Edit distance from "evidência"

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 "evidência"?

"evidência" is spelled E-V-I-D-Ê-N-C-I-A.

What does "evidência" mean?

As a noun, "evidência" means: qualidade daquilo que confirma (uma ação, uma hipótese, etc.)

What words are commonly confused with "evidência"?

"evidência" is commonly confused with "exigência", "evidenciar", "evidence". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.

What language does "evidência" come from?

"evidência" is a Portuguese word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.

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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "evidência", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

demasiado#3,975 narrativa#4,007 autonomia#4,041 completar#4,051

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).

profundo12 variants contagem12 variants delegacia12 variants igualdade12 variants