policial
/pu.li.ˈsjaɫ/
The verdict
“policial” has 11 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #1,320. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,320
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,578
- “P” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - relativo à polícia
Corpus desk
Index PT-policial · policial · Portuguese
policial · rank #1,320 · 11 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,320
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,578
- PHOTO-FINISH peça
Nearest frequency peer: peça (-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 “policial”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- normalmente
normalmente
98,685 corpus weight
- parabéns
parabéns
98,684 corpus weight
- peça
peça
98,682 corpus weight
- policial
policial
98,681 corpus weight
- rapidamente
rapidamente
98,679 corpus weight
- reino
reino
98,678 corpus weight
What this shows “policial” 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 | policial |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /pu.li.ˈsjaɫ/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #1,320 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “policial”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around policial (IPA /pu.li.ˈsjaɫ/), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #1,320 among 1,578 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "relativo à polícia".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for policial, with forms such as "oplicial", "ploicial", and "poilcial". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "political", "polícia", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is policial, spelled P-O-L-I-C-I-A-L.
Definition
- 1relativo à polícia
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how policial appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Um membro da Ordem dos Parlamentares do Brasil (OPB), que afirma dar consultoria parlamentar, foi levado para o plantão do 27º Distrito Policial, do Campo Belo, na madrugada desta quinta-feira, 19, após se envolver em um acidente na esquina da Avenida Engenheiro Luís Carlos Berrini com a Rua Quintana, no Brooklin, zona sul de São Paulo.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- oplicial
- ploicial
- poilcial
- polciial
- policail
- policcial
- policiall
- policila
- poliical
- pollicial
- ppolicial
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of policial - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 "policial", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).