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
- 1,578
- “P” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - cavidade pouco profunda onde se acumula água
Corpus desk
Index PT-poca · poça · Portuguese
poça · rank #29,093 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #29,093
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,578
- PHOTO-FINISH pousa
Nearest frequency peer: pousa (-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.
Vizinhos de frequência do confusável “poça”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- Piero
Piero
70,916 corpus weight
- polaco
polaco
70,913 corpus weight
- pompa
pompa
70,912 corpus weight
- pousa
pousa
70,909 corpus weight
- poça
poça
70,908 corpus weight
- privatizar
privatizar
70,906 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “poça” face aos lemas portugueses mais próximos por rank, não um reprint da secretária de confusáveis.
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) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “poça”
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 1,578 “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.
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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "poça", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).