palhaçada
/pɐ.ʎɐ.ˈsa.dɐ/
The verdict
“palhaçada” has 12 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #20,385. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #20,385
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,578
- “P” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - ato de palhaço; dito de palhaço
Corpus desk
Index PT-palhacada · palhaçada · Portuguese
palhaçada · rank #20,385 · 12 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #20,385
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,578
- PHOTO-FINISH palito
Nearest frequency peer: palito (+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 “palhaçada”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- objeção
objeção
79,625 corpus weight
- October
October
79,624 corpus weight
- ortografia
ortografia
79,618 corpus weight
- palhaçada
palhaçada
79,616 corpus weight
- palito
palito
79,615 corpus weight
- patrulhamen…
patrulhamento
79,611 corpus weight
What this shows “palhaçada” está entre estes pares FrequencyWords; a profundidade de typo mede-se à parte no gráfico de distância de edição.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | palhaçada |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /pɐ.ʎɐ.ˈsa.dɐ/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #20,385 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “palhaçada”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around palhaçada (IPA /pɐ.ʎɐ.ˈsa.dɐ/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #20,385 among 1,578 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for palhaçada, with forms such as "aplhaçada", "pahlaçada", and "palahçada". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology 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 palhaçada, spelled P-A-L-H-A-Ç-A-D-A.
Definition
- 1ato de palhaço; dito de palhaço
- 2cena ridícula e burlesca
- 3grupo de palhaços
- 4mascarada
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aplhaçada
- pahlaçada
- palahçada
- palhaaçda
- palhaçaad
- palhaçadda
- palhaçdaa
- palhhaçada
- palhçaada
- pallhaçada
- plahaçada
- ppalhaçada
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of palhaçada - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "palhaçada", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).