hospício
/os.ˈpi.sju/
The verdict
“hospício” has 11 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #21,203. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #21,203
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 409
- “H” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - local para tratamento e/ou hospedagem de pessoas doentes ou pobres sem gratificação, monetária ou econômica, ao serviço prestado; asilo
Corpus desk
Index PT-hospicio · hospício · Portuguese
hospício · rank #21,203 · 11 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #21,203
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 409
- PHOTO-FINISH honey
Nearest frequency peer: honey (-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.
Pares de rank junto ao íman ortográfico “hospício”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- glory
glory
78,804 corpus weight
- guto
guto
78,800 corpus weight
- honey
honey
78,799 corpus weight
- hospício
hospício
78,798 corpus weight
- humorístico
humorístico
78,797 corpus weight
- inesperadam…
inesperadamente
78,792 corpus weight
What this shows “hospício” está entre estes pares FrequencyWords; a profundidade de typo mede-se à parte no gráfico de distância de edição.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hospício |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /os.ˈpi.sju/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #21,203 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “hospício”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around hospício (IPA /os.ˈpi.sju/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #21,203 among 409 “H” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for hospício, with forms such as "hhospício", "hopsício", and "hospcíio". 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. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Portuguese form is hospício, spelled H-O-S-P-Í-C-I-O.
Definition
- 1local para tratamento e/ou hospedagem de pessoas doentes ou pobres sem gratificação, monetária ou econômica, ao serviço prestado; asilo
- 2local para tratamento e hospedagem de pessoas com transtornos mentais; manicômio
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- hhospício
- hopsício
- hospcíio
- hosppício
- hospíccio
- hospícoi
- hospíico
- hosspício
- hosípcio
- hsopício
- ohspício
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of hospício - 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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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).