perícia
/pɨ.ˈɾi.sjɐ/
The verdict
“perícia” has 9 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #12,125. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #12,125
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,578
- “P” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - habilidade, arte, engenho, execução correta por meio de conhecimento
Corpus desk
Index PT-pericia · perícia · Portuguese
perícia · rank #12,125 · 9 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #12,125
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,578
- PHOTO-FINISH percentual
Nearest frequency peer: percentual (-1 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 “perícia”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- opressão
opressão
87,882 corpus weight
- paro
paro
87,878 corpus weight
- percentual
percentual
87,877 corpus weight
- perícia
perícia
87,876 corpus weight
- Piracicaba
Piracicaba
87,874 corpus weight
- prontamente
prontamente
87,870 corpus weight
What this shows “perícia” 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 | perícia |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /pɨ.ˈɾi.sjɐ/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #12,125 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “perícia”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around perícia (IPA /pɨ.ˈɾi.sjɐ/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #12,125 among 1,578 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for perícia, with forms such as "eprícia", "percíia", and "perrícia". 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. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "peruca", "polícia", "perca", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Portuguese form is perícia, spelled P-E-R-Í-C-I-A.
Definition
- 1habilidade, arte, engenho, execução correta por meio de conhecimento
- 2vistoria técnica especializada
- 3conjunto de especialistas que realizam uma vistoria técnica
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how perícia appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
"Mas somente após a perícia poderemos dar mais detalhes", afirmou Santoro.
Um inquérito será aberto e a perícia técnica da Polícia Civil deverá apontar as causas do acidente.
Synonyms
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- eprícia
- percíia
- perrícia
- perícai
- períccia
- períica
- peírcia
- pperícia
- preícia
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of perícia - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "perícia", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).