Piracicaba
/pi.ɾa.siˈka.bɐ/
The verdict
“Piracicaba” has 14 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #12,127. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #12,127
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 3,113
- “P” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - município brasileiro de São Paulo, sede de região metropolitana que leva seu nome, centraliza o setor sucroalcooleiro da zona em que está situada, importante polo industrial e educacional
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Piracicaba |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /pi.ɾa.siˈka.bɐ/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #12,127 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Piracicaba” sits in Portuguese frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around Piracicaba (IPA /pi.ɾa.siˈka.bɐ/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #12,127 among 3,113 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "município brasileiro de São Paulo, sede de região metropolitana que leva seu nome, centraliza o setor sucroalcooleiro da zona em que está situada, importante polo industrial e educacional".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for Piracicaba, with forms such as "ipracicaba", "piarcicaba", and "piracciaba". 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 is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is Piracicaba, spelled P-I-R-A-C-I-C-A-B-A.
Definition
- 1município brasileiro de São Paulo, sede de região metropolitana que leva seu nome, centraliza o setor sucroalcooleiro da zona em que está situada, importante polo industrial e educacional
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ipracicaba
- piarcicaba
- piracciaba
- piraccicaba
- piraciacba
- piracicaab
- piracicabba
- piracicbaa
- piraciccaba
- piraiccaba
- pircaicaba
- pirracicaba
- ppiracicaba
- priacicaba
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Piracicaba - 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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Using “Piracicaba”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is P-I-R-A-C-I-C-A-B-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /pi.ɾa.siˈka.bɐ/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more Portuguese words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Portuguese words
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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.