periferia
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#9,385
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
12
tracked variants
Confusables
1
similar word pairs
periferia is aPortuguesenoun. It means: contorno de um objeto It ranks #9,385 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with periférico.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | periferia |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #9,385 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for periferia is 9 letters long, classified as anoun. Corpus data places it at rank #9,385 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for periferia, with forms such as "epriferia", "peirferia", and "perfieria". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "periférico", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Portuguese form is periferia, spelled P-E-R-I-F-E-R-I-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1contorno de um objeto
- 2local afastado do centro
- 3local para onde, normalmente, as pessoas de baixa renda se deslocam para morar
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: epriferia,peirferia,perfieria,periefria,perifeira,periferai,periferria,perifferia,perifreia,perriferia,pperiferia,preiferia
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for periferia
Misspelling Variants of "periferia"
Frequency rank: #9,385 in Portuguese
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