incidência
The verdict
“incidência” is a moderately-common Portuguese word, ranked #10,371 in Portuguese word frequency and used as a noun.
- #10,371
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 10
- letters
- 14
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - ato ou efeito de incidir
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | incidência |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #10,371 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “incidência” sits in Portuguese frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for incidência is 10 letters long, classified as a noun. Corpus data places it at rank #10,371 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "ato ou efeito de incidir".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for incidência, with forms such as "icnidência", "inccidência", and "incdiência". 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 is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 incidência, spelled I-N-C-I-D-Ê-N-C-I-A.
Definition
- 1ato ou efeito de incidir
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: icnidência,inccidência,incdiência,inciddência,incidnêcia,incidêcnia,incidêncai,incidênccia,incidênica,incidênncia,inciêdncia,inicdência,inncidência,nicidência
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of incidência - 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 “incidência”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is I-N-C-I-D-Ê-N-C-I-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Browse more Portuguese words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Portuguese words
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.