poça
/ˈpo.sɐ/
The verdict
“poça” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #29,093) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #29,093
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 3,113
- “P” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - cavidade pouco profunda onde se acumula água
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 | poça |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈpo.sɐ/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #29,093 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “poça” sits in Portuguese frequency
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for poça is neighbouring look-alikes ("por", "pop", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced /ˈpo.sɐ/. Frequency #29,093 among 3,113 “P” headwords. Gloss: "cavidade pouco profunda onde se acumula água".
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for poça, with forms such as "opça", "poaç", and "ppoça". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "por", "pop", "Pol", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 poça, spelled P-O-Ç-A.
Definition
- 1cavidade pouco profunda onde se acumula água
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- opça
- poaç
- ppoça
- pçoa
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of poça - 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.
Frequently Asked Questions
How do you spell "poça"?
What does "poça" mean?
What words are commonly confused with "poça"?
How do you pronounce "poça"?
What language does "poça" come from?
Is PlainSpell free to use?
Using “poça”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is P-O-Ç-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ˈpo.sɐ/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “por” - see the side-by-side comparison. poça vs por
- Browse more Portuguese words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Portuguese words
Words at a similar Portuguese frequency
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.