penitenciária
/pɨ.ni.tẽ.ˈsja.ɾjɐ/
The verdict
“penitenciária” has 18 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #11,931. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #11,931
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 3,113
- “P” headwords
- 18
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - prisão pública onde os criminosos cumprem suas penas
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | penitenciária |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /pɨ.ni.tẽ.ˈsja.ɾjɐ/ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #11,931 |
| Misspellings tracked | 18 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “penitenciária” sits in Portuguese frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 18 spelling variants around penitenciária (IPA /pɨ.ni.tẽ.ˈsja.ɾjɐ/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #11,931 among 3,113 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "prisão pública onde os criminosos cumprem suas penas".
Our generated misspelling index lists 18 likely wrong-spelling variants for penitenciária, with forms such as "epnitenciária", "peintenciária", and "penietnciária". 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 close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
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. The correct Portuguese form is penitenciária, spelled P-E-N-I-T-E-N-C-I-Á-R-I-A.
Definition
- 1prisão pública onde os criminosos cumprem suas penas
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- epnitenciária
- peintenciária
- penietnciária
- penitecniária
- penitencciária
- penitenciráia
- penitenciáira
- penitenciárai
- penitenciárria
- penitencáiria
- penitenicária
- penitennciária
- penitneciária
- penittenciária
- pennitenciária
- pentienciária
- pneitenciária
- ppenitenciária
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of penitenciária - 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 “penitenciária”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is P-E-N-I-T-E-N-C-I-Á-R-I-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /pɨ.ni.tẽ.ˈsja.ɾjɐ/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.