police
pəˈliːs/
The verdict
“police” has 8 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #18,149. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #18,149
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,578
- “P” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - polícia (instituição)
Corpus desk
Index PT-police · police · Portuguese
police · rank #18,149 · 8 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #18,149
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,578
- PHOTO-FINISH plebiscito
Nearest frequency peer: plebiscito (-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 “police”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- pepe
pepe
81,861 corpus weight
- plebiscito
plebiscito
81,853 corpus weight
- police
police
81,852 corpus weight
- precaução
precaução
81,850 corpus weight
- pregação
pregação
81,849 corpus weight
- prison
prison
81,846 corpus weight
What this shows “police” 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 | police |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | pəˈliːs/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #18,149 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “police”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around police (IPA pəˈliːs/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #18,149 among 1,578 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for police, with forms such as "oplice", "ploice", and "poilce". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "price", "policy", "polido", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct Portuguese form is police, spelled P-O-L-I-C-E.
Definition
- 1polícia (instituição)
- 2policiais (usado sempre no plural)
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- oplice
- ploice
- poilce
- polcie
- policce
- poliec
- pollice
- ppolice
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of police - 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 "police", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).