excelência
/e.seˈlẽ.si.ɐ/ [e.seˈlẽ.sɪ.ɐ] AFI: /e.seˈlẽ.sjɐ/ (pronúncia coloquial)
The verdict
“excelência” has 14 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #4,476. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #4,476
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 2,493
- “E” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - característica do que é excelente, que é excepcional
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | excelência |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /e.seˈlẽ.si.ɐ/ [e.seˈlẽ.sɪ.ɐ] AFI: /e.seˈlẽ.sjɐ/ (pronúncia coloquial) |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #4,476 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “excelência” sits in Portuguese frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around excelência (IPA /e.seˈlẽ.si.ɐ/ [e.seˈlẽ.sɪ.ɐ] AFI: /e.seˈlẽ.sjɐ/ (pronúncia coloquial)), anoun. Corpus frequency is #4,476 among 2,493 “E” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for excelência, with forms such as "ecxelência", "exccelência", and "excellência". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Portuguese form is excelência, spelled E-X-C-E-L-Ê-N-C-I-A.
Definition
- 1característica do que é excelente, que é excepcional
- 2que tem grau elevado em bondade, qualidade ou perfeição
- 3tratamento dado a pessoas de alto grau hierárquico na sociedade (nobre, político, diplomático, eclesiástico, etc.); forma respeitosa de tratar senhoras
- 4canto entoado durante velórios (ou junto a um moribundo), via de regra por mulheres; cantoria fúnebre em uníssono e sem acompanhamento instrumental, nalguns lugares composto por doze versos ritualmente cantados aos pés do morto enquanto os benditos são entoados à cabeça deste
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ecxelência,exccelência,excellência,excelnêcia,excelêcnia,excelêncai,excelênccia,excelênica,excelênncia,exceêlncia,excleência,execlência,exxcelência,xecelência
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of excelência - 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 “excelência”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is E-X-C-E-L-Ê-N-C-I-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /e.seˈlẽ.si.ɐ/ [e.seˈlẽ.sɪ.ɐ] AFI: /e.seˈlẽ.sjɐ/ (pronúncia coloquial) (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.