persuasão
/pɨɾ.swa.ˈzɐ̃w̃/
The verdict
“persuasão” has 12 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #27,971. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #27,971
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,578
- “P” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - ato ou efeito de persuadir(-se)
Corpus desk
Index PT-persuasao · persuasão · Portuguese
persuasão · rank #27,971 · 12 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #27,971
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,578
- PHOTO-FINISH pistoleiro
Nearest frequency peer: pistoleiro (+2 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 “persuasão”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- pane
pane
72,040 corpus weight
- partição
partição
72,037 corpus weight
- persuasão
persuasão
72,030 corpus weight
- pistoleiro
pistoleiro
72,028 corpus weight
- plata
plata
72,025 corpus weight
- privar
privar
72,019 corpus weight
What this shows “persuasão” 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 | persuasão |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /pɨɾ.swa.ˈzɐ̃w̃/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #27,971 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “persuasão”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around persuasão (IPA /pɨɾ.swa.ˈzɐ̃w̃/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #27,971 among 1,578 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for persuasão, with forms such as "eprsuasão", "perrsuasão", and "persausão". 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, "percussão", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 persuasão, spelled P-E-R-S-U-A-S-Ã-O.
Definition
- 1ato ou efeito de persuadir(-se)
- 2capacidade de argumentar de maneira convincente
- 3crença, convicção
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how persuasão appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
A persuasão de Pedro convenceu Ana a viajar com ele para o deserto do Saara.
A persuasão de Pedro convence qualquer pessoa a viajar com ele para o deserto do Saara.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- eprsuasão
- perrsuasão
- persausão
- perssuasão
- persuasoã
- persuassão
- persuaãso
- persusaão
- perusasão
- pesruasão
- ppersuasão
- presuasão
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of persuasão - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 "persuasão", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).