Palestina
/pa.lesˈti.na/
The verdict
“Palestina” is a regularly-used Portuguese word, ranked #7,194 in Portuguese word frequency and used as a noun.
- #7,194
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 9
- letters
- 13
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Palestina
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Palestina |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /pa.lesˈti.na/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #7,194 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Palestina” sits in Portuguese frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for Palestina is 9 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /pa.lesˈti.na/. Corpus data places it at rank #7,194 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Palestina".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for Palestina, with forms such as "aplestina", "paelstina", and "palesitna". 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. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 Palestina, spelled P-A-L-E-S-T-I-N-A.
Definition
- 1Palestina
Synonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: aplestina,paelstina,palesitna,palesstina,palestian,palestinna,palestnia,palesttina,paletsina,pallestina,palsetina,plaestina,ppalestina
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Palestina - 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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Using “Palestina”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is P-A-L-E-S-T-I-N-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /pa.lesˈti.na/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- 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.