placa
/ˈpla.kɐ/
The verdict
“placa” is a regularly-used Portuguese word, ranked #3,510 in Portuguese word frequency and used as a noun.
- #3,510
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 5
- letters
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - peça de materiais diversos longa e larga mas de pouca espessura
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 | placa |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈpla.kɐ/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #3,510 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “placa” sits in Portuguese frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for placa is 5 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈpla.kɐ/. Corpus data places it at rank #3,510 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for placa, with forms such as "lpaca", "palca", and "plaac". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "play", "poça", "plano", and more, 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 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 placa, spelled P-L-A-C-A.
Definition
- 1peça de materiais diversos longa e larga mas de pouca espessura
- 2tabuleta, letreiro
- 3peça de metal colocada à frente e atràs dos automóveis e que mostra o número de matrícula
- 4peça de madeira, plástico, etc com o nome gravado em cima
- 5peça de metal ou outro material colocada numa parede como uma homenagem à memória de uma pessoa ou evento
- 6decoração para colocar numa parede
- 7superfície aquecida para esquentar pratos
- 8depósito de saliva e bactérias que se forma perto dos dentes
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: lpaca,palca,plaac,placca,plcaa,pllaca,pplaca
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of placa - 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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Using “placa”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is P-L-A-C-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ˈpla.kɐ/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “play” - see the side-by-side comparison. placa vs play
- Browse more Portuguese words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Portuguese words
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.