placebo
/pləˈsiboʊ/
The verdict
“placebo” has 10 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #27,214. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #27,214
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,578
- “P” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - placebo
Corpus desk
Index PT-placebo · placebo · Portuguese
placebo · rank #27,214 · 10 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #27,214
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,578
- PHOTO-FINISH pescado
Nearest frequency peer: pescado (-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 “placebo”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- paquistanês
paquistanês
72,797 corpus weight
- peneira
peneira
72,792 corpus weight
- pescado
pescado
72,788 corpus weight
- placebo
placebo
72,787 corpus weight
- possessão
possessão
72,778 corpus weight
- preponderan…
preponderante
72,773 corpus weight
What this shows “placebo” 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 | placebo |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /pləˈsiboʊ/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #27,214 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “placebo”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around placebo (IPA /pləˈsiboʊ/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #27,214 among 1,578 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "placebo".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for placebo, with forms such as "lpacebo", "palcebo", and "placbeo". 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, "plácido", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Portuguese form is placebo, spelled P-L-A-C-E-B-O.
Definition
- 1placebo
Antonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- lpacebo
- palcebo
- placbeo
- placcebo
- placebbo
- placeob
- plaecbo
- plcaebo
- pllacebo
- pplacebo
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of placebo - 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 "placebo", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).