percentagem
/pɨɾ.sẽ.ˈta.ʒɐ̃j̃/
The verdict
“percentagem” has 17 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #13,146. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #13,146
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,578
- “P” headwords
- 17
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - fração centesimal de uma grandeza
Corpus desk
Index PT-percentagem · percentagem · Portuguese
percentagem · rank #13,146 · 17 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #13,146
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 17 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,578
- PHOTO-FINISH potente
Nearest frequency peer: potente (+5 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 “percentagem”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- naquelas
naquelas
86,867 corpus weight
- náutico
náutico
86,864 corpus weight
- percentagem
percentagem
86,855 corpus weight
- potente
potente
86,850 corpus weight
- promissor
promissor
86,845 corpus weight
- quarteto
quarteto
86,842 corpus weight
What this shows “percentagem” está entre estes pares FrequencyWords; a profundidade de typo mede-se à parte no gráfico de distância de edição.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | percentagem |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /pɨɾ.sẽ.ˈta.ʒɐ̃j̃/ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #13,146 |
| Misspellings tracked | 17 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “percentagem”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 17 spelling variants around percentagem (IPA /pɨɾ.sẽ.ˈta.ʒɐ̃j̃/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #13,146 among 1,578 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 17 likely wrong-spelling variants for percentagem, with forms such as "eprcentagem", "pecrentagem", and "perccentagem". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "porcentagem", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 percentagem, spelled P-E-R-C-E-N-T-A-G-E-M.
Definition
- 1fração centesimal de uma grandeza
- 2proporção em relação a cem
- 3quantia paga ou recebida na razão de uns tanto por cento
- 4comissão
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- eprcentagem
- pecrentagem
- perccentagem
- percenatgem
- percenntagem
- percentaegm
- percentagemm
- percentaggem
- percentagme
- percentgaem
- percenttagem
- percetnagem
- percnetagem
- perecntagem
- perrcentagem
- ppercentagem
- precentagem
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of percentagem - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (17 here; floor ≥5).