periférico
The verdict
“periférico” has 14 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #29,460. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #29,460
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 3,113
- “P” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - que está na periferia, distante do centro
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 | periférico |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #29,460 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “periférico” sits in Portuguese frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around periférico, anadjective. Corpus frequency is #29,460 among 3,113 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for periférico, with forms such as "epriférico", "peirférico", and "perfiérico". 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, "periferia", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is periférico, spelled P-E-R-I-F-É-R-I-C-O.
Definition
- 1que está na periferia, distante do centro
- 2bairro pobre, longe da porção principal de uma cidade
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- epriférico
- peirférico
- perfiérico
- perifférico
- perifréico
- periféirco
- perifércio
- periféricco
- periférioc
- periférrico
- periéfrico
- perriférico
- pperiférico
- preiférico
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of periférico - 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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Using “periférico”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is P-E-R-I-F-É-R-I-C-O - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Don't mix it up with “periferia” - see the side-by-side comparison. periférico vs periferia
- Browse more Portuguese words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Portuguese words
Same frequency band
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.