pânico

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for pânico is 6 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈpɐ.ni.ku/. Corpus data places it at rank #3,857 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "que assusta sem motivo".

Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for pânico, with forms such as "pnâico", "ppânico", and "pâinco". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 12 confusable-pair relationships, "pano", "pico", "pátio", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Portuguese form is pânico, spelled P-Â-N-I-C-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.