penicilina
The verdict
“penicilina” has 14 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #37,462. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #37,462
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 3,113
- “P” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - medicamento com ação antibiótica obtido natural ou sinteticamente
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | penicilina |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #37,462 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “penicilina” sits in Portuguese frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around penicilina, anoun. Corpus frequency is #37,462 among 3,113 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "medicamento com ação antibiótica obtido natural ou sinteticamente".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for penicilina, with forms such as "epnicilina", "peincilina", and "penciilina". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Portuguese form is penicilina, spelled P-E-N-I-C-I-L-I-N-A.
Definition
- 1medicamento com ação antibiótica obtido natural ou sinteticamente
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- epnicilina
- peincilina
- penciilina
- peniccilina
- peniciilna
- penicilian
- penicilinna
- penicillina
- penicilnia
- penicliina
- peniiclina
- pennicilina
- pneicilina
- ppenicilina
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of penicilina - 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 “penicilina”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is P-E-N-I-C-I-L-I-N-A - 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.