pontifício
The verdict
“pontifício” has 14 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #33,130. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #33,130
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,578
- “P” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - relativo a pontífice; próprio de pontífice ou procedente dele
Corpus desk
Index PT-pontificio · pontifício · Portuguese
pontifício · rank #33,130 · 14 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #33,130
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,578
- PHOTO-FINISH prescrito
Nearest frequency peer: prescrito (+5 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 “pontifício”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- oratória
oratória
66,888 corpus weight
- perdidamente
perdidamente
66,877 corpus weight
- pontifício
pontifício
66,871 corpus weight
- prescrito
prescrito
66,866 corpus weight
- presidido
presidido
66,864 corpus weight
- reabilitar
reabilitar
66,852 corpus weight
What this shows “pontifício” 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 | pontifício |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #33,130 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “pontifício”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around pontifício, anadjective. Corpus frequency is #33,130 among 1,578 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "relativo a pontífice; próprio de pontífice ou procedente dele".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for pontifício, with forms such as "opntifício", "pnotifício", and "ponitfício". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "pontífice", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Portuguese form is pontifício, spelled P-O-N-T-I-F-Í-C-I-O.
Definition
- 1relativo a pontífice; próprio de pontífice ou procedente dele
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how pontifício appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Encontros com a comunidade judaica são comuns em viagens pontifícias, mas na Alemanha isso assume um significado maior, devido à tentativa do regime nazista (1933-45) de exterminar os judeus no Holocausto.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- opntifício
- pnotifício
- ponitfício
- ponntifício
- pontfiício
- pontifcíio
- pontiffício
- pontifíccio
- pontifícoi
- pontifíico
- pontiífcio
- ponttifício
- potnifício
- ppontifício
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of pontifício - 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 "pontifício", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).