policial

//pu.li.ˈsjaɫ// adj

Letters

8 characters

Frequency Rank

#1,320

in Portuguese word usage

Misspellings

11

tracked variants

Confusables

2

similar word pairs

policial is anPortugueseadj. It means: relativo à polícia Pronounced /pu.li.ˈsjaɫ/. It ranks #1,320 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with political and polícia.

Key facts for policial
PropertyValue
Headwordpolicial
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechAdj
IPA/pu.li.ˈsjaɫ/
Letters8
Frequency rank#1,320
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs2
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of policial in Portuguese word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for policial is 8 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /pu.li.ˈsjaɫ/. Corpus data places it at rank #1,320 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "relativo à polícia".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for policial, with forms such as "oplicial", "ploicial", and "poilcial". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "political", "polícia", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Portuguese form is policial, spelled P-O-L-I-C-I-A-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    relativo à polícia

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: oplicial,ploicial,poilcial,polciial,policail,policcial,policiall,policila,poliical,pollicial,ppolicial

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for policial

Misspelling Variants of "policial"

oplicial8ploicial8poilcial8polciial8policail8policcial9policiall9policila8
Misspelling Variants of "policial"

Frequency rank: #1,320 in Portuguese

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "policial"?
"policial" is spelled P-O-L-I-C-I-A-L. The IPA pronunciation is /pu.li.ˈsjaɫ/.
What does "policial" mean?
As an adj, "policial" means: relativo à polícia
What words are commonly confused with "policial"?
"policial" is commonly confused with "political", "polícia". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "policial"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "policial" is /pu.li.ˈsjaɫ/. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "policial" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.