polido
/pu.ˈli.du/
The verdict
“polido” has 8 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #35,729. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #35,729
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,578
- “P” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 12
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - lustroso
Corpus desk
Index PT-polido · polido · Portuguese
polido · rank #35,729 · 8 variants · 12 confusables
- FREQ-MID #35,729
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 12 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,578
- PHOTO-FINISH posteridade
Nearest frequency peer: posteridade (+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 “polido”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- Petro
Petro
64,276 corpus weight
- pião
pião
64,274 corpus weight
- polido
polido
64,272 corpus weight
- posteridade
posteridade
64,271 corpus weight
- preventivam…
preventivamente
64,267 corpus weight
- procriação
procriação
64,265 corpus weight
What this shows “polido” 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 | polido |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /pu.ˈli.du/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #35,729 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “polido”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around polido (IPA /pu.ˈli.du/), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #35,729 among 1,578 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for polido, with forms such as "oplido", "ploido", and "poildo". 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 12 confusable-pair relationships, "polo", "polvo", "provido", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Portuguese form is polido, spelled P-O-L-I-D-O.
Definition
- 1lustroso
- 2liso
- 3brunido
- 4delicado
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- oplido
- ploido
- poildo
- poldio
- poliddo
- poliod
- pollido
- ppolido
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of polido - 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
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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).