Pensilvânia
/pẽ.siw.ˈvã.njə/
The verdict
“Pensilvânia” has 16 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #15,420. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #15,420
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 3,113
- “P” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - estado dos Estados Unidos da América, banhado pelo lago Erie, e confinando com os estados de Nova Iorque, New Jersey, Maryland, Virgínia Ocidental e Ohio; sua capital é Harrisburg
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Pensilvânia |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /pẽ.siw.ˈvã.njə/ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #15,420 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Pensilvânia” sits in Portuguese frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around Pensilvânia (IPA /pẽ.siw.ˈvã.njə/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #15,420 among 3,113 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "estado dos Estados Unidos da América, banhado pelo lago Erie, e confinando com os estados de Nova Iorque, New Jersey, Maryland, Virgínia Ocidental e Ohio; sua capital é Harrisburg".
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for Pensilvânia, with forms such as "epnsilvânia", "penislvânia", and "pennsilvânia". 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. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is Pensilvânia, spelled P-E-N-S-I-L-V-Â-N-I-A.
Definition
- 1estado dos Estados Unidos da América, banhado pelo lago Erie, e confinando com os estados de Nova Iorque, New Jersey, Maryland, Virgínia Ocidental e Ohio; sua capital é Harrisburg
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- epnsilvânia
- penislvânia
- pennsilvânia
- pensillvânia
- pensilvnâia
- pensilvvânia
- pensilvâina
- pensilvânai
- pensilvânnia
- pensilâvnia
- pensivlânia
- penslivânia
- penssilvânia
- pesnilvânia
- pnesilvânia
- ppensilvânia
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Pensilvânia - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 “Pensilvânia”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is P-E-N-S-I-L-V-Â-N-I-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /pẽ.siw.ˈvã.njə/ (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
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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.