piolho
/ˈpjo.ʎu/
The verdict
“piolho” has 8 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #32,316. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #32,316
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,578
- “P” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - inseto parasita que suga o sangue de vertebrados e lhes transmite várias doenças
Corpus desk
Index PT-piolho · piolho · Portuguese
piolho · rank #32,316 · 8 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #32,316
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,578
- PHOTO-FINISH pirulito
Nearest frequency peer: pirulito (+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 “piolho”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- oncologia
oncologia
67,708 corpus weight
- piolho
piolho
67,685 corpus weight
- pirulito
pirulito
67,684 corpus weight
- pragmatismo
pragmatismo
67,677 corpus weight
- proeminência
proeminência
67,673 corpus weight
- radiografia
radiografia
67,665 corpus weight
What this shows “piolho” 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 | piolho |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈpjo.ʎu/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #32,316 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “piolho”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around piolho (IPA /ˈpjo.ʎu/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #32,316 among 1,578 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "inseto parasita que suga o sangue de vertebrados e lhes transmite várias doenças".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for piolho, with forms such as "ipolho", "piloho", and "piohlo". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "polo", "polvo", "pilha", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Portuguese form is piolho, spelled P-I-O-L-H-O.
Definition
- 1inseto parasita que suga o sangue de vertebrados e lhes transmite várias doenças
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ipolho
- piloho
- piohlo
- piolhho
- piollho
- pioloh
- poilho
- ppiolho
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of piolho - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).