intercontinental
The verdict
“intercontinental” is a moderately-common Portuguese word, ranked #29,785 in Portuguese word frequency and used as an adjective.
- #29,785
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 16
- letters
- 25
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - que está situado ou que se efetua entre continentes
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | intercontinental |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 16 |
| Frequency rank | #29,785 |
| Misspellings tracked | 25 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “intercontinental” sits in Portuguese frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for intercontinental is 16 letters long, classified as an adjective. Corpus data places it at rank #29,785 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "que está situado ou que se efetua entre continentes".
Our generated misspelling index lists 25 likely wrong-spelling variants for intercontinental, with forms such as "inetrcontinental", "inntercontinental", and "intecrontinental". 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, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Portuguese form is intercontinental, spelled I-N-T-E-R-C-O-N-T-I-N-E-N-T-A-L.
Definition
- 1que está situado ou que se efetua entre continentes
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: inetrcontinental,inntercontinental,intecrontinental,interccontinental,intercnotinental,interconitnental,interconntinental,intercontienntal,intercontinenatl,intercontinenntal,intercontinentall,intercontinentla,intercontinenttal,intercontinetnal,intercontinnental,intercontinnetal,intercontniental,interconttinental,intercotninental,interocntinental,interrcontinental,intrecontinental,inttercontinental,itnercontinental,nitercontinental
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of intercontinental - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 “intercontinental”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is I-N-T-E-R-C-O-N-T-I-N-E-N-T-A-L - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.