Garcia
/ɡaʁˈsi.ɐ/ [ɡahˈsi.ɐ]
The verdict
“Garcia” has 8 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #4,312. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #4,312
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 521
- “G” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - sobrenome comum em português
Corpus desk
Index PT-garcia · Garcia · Portuguese
Garcia · rank #4,312 · 8 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #4,312
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 521
- PHOTO-FINISH idioma
Nearest frequency peer: idioma (+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 “Garcia”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- daquilo
daquilo
95,697 corpus weight
- derrubar
derrubar
95,696 corpus weight
- don
don
95,695 corpus weight
- Garcia
Garcia
95,689 corpus weight
- idioma
idioma
95,685 corpus weight
- long
long
95,682 corpus weight
What this shows “Garcia” 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 | Garcia |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ɡaʁˈsi.ɐ/ [ɡahˈsi.ɐ] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #4,312 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “Garcia”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around Garcia (IPA /ɡaʁˈsi.ɐ/ [ɡahˈsi.ɐ]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #4,312 among 521 “G” headwords. Dominant gloss: "sobrenome comum em português".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for Garcia, with forms such as "agrcia", "gacria", and "garcai". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "gari", "garra", "gíria", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, 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 Garcia, spelled G-A-R-C-I-A.
Definition
- 1sobrenome comum em português
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- agrcia
- gacria
- garcai
- garccia
- garica
- garrcia
- ggarcia
- gracia
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Garcia - 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 "Garcia", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).