politics
The verdict
“politics” has 12 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #20,980. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #20,980
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,578
- “P” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - política
Corpus desk
Index PT-politics · politics · Portuguese
politics · rank #20,980 · 12 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #20,980
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,578
- PHOTO-FINISH povoação
Nearest frequency peer: povoação (+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 “politics”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- pedestre
pedestre
79,029 corpus weight
- piroca
piroca
79,023 corpus weight
- politics
politics
79,021 corpus weight
- povoação
povoação
79,020 corpus weight
- prateado
prateado
79,019 corpus weight
- prosperar
prosperar
79,012 corpus weight
What this shows “politics” 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 | politics |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #20,980 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “politics”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around politics, anoun. Corpus frequency is #20,980 among 1,578 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "política".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for politics, with forms such as "oplitics", "ploitics", and "poiltics". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "política", "political", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct Portuguese form is politics, spelled P-O-L-I-T-I-C-S.
Definition
- 1política
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how politics appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
deceitful politics
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- oplitics
- ploitics
- poiltics
- poliitcs
- politcis
- politiccs
- politicss
- politisc
- polittics
- pollitics
- poltiics
- ppolitics
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of politics - 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 "politics", 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 (12 here; floor ≥5).