exigência
/ˌeziʒˈe͡ɪŋsjæ/
The verdict
“exigência” has 12 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #8,191. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #8,191
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,279
- “E” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - ação ou resultado de exigir
Corpus desk
Index PT-exigencia · exigência · Portuguese
exigência · rank #8,191 · 12 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #8,191
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,279
- PHOTO-FINISH entorno
Nearest frequency peer: entorno (-4 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.
Pares de rank junto ao íman ortográfico “exigência”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- desigualdade
desigualdade
91,821 corpus weight
- distribuir
distribuir
91,819 corpus weight
- entorno
entorno
91,814 corpus weight
- exigência
exigência
91,810 corpus weight
- farol
farol
91,804 corpus weight
- fraternidade
fraternidade
91,799 corpus weight
What this shows “exigência” 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).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | exigência |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˌeziʒˈe͡ɪŋsjæ/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #8,191 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “exigência”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around exigência (IPA /ˌeziʒˈe͡ɪŋsjæ/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #8,191 among 1,279 “E” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for exigência, with forms such as "eixgência", "exgiência", and "exiggência". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "existência", "evidência", "eminência", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is exigência, spelled E-X-I-G-Ê-N-C-I-A.
Definition
- 1ação ou resultado de exigir
- 2pretensão caprichosa e desmedida
- 3o que é reivindicado como forma de pagamento
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how exigência appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Por exigência dos senadores, o ministro propôs a redução de 0,01 ponto porcentual ao ano até 2011 já no texto do projeto em discussão.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- eixgência
- exgiência
- exiggência
- exignêcia
- exigêcnia
- exigêncai
- exigênccia
- exigênica
- exigênncia
- exiêgncia
- exxigência
- xeigência
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of exigência - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "exigência", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).