população
/po.pu.la.ˈsãw/
The verdict
“população” has 11 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #351. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #351
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,578
- “P” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - conjunto de pessoas que habitam uma certa região num certo momento
Corpus desk
Index PT-populacao · população · Portuguese
população · rank #351 · 11 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #351
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,578
- PHOTO-FINISH isto
Nearest frequency peer: isto (-2 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 “população”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- deste
deste
99,655 corpus weight
- fosse
fosse
99,653 corpus weight
- isto
isto
99,652 corpus weight
- população
população
99,650 corpus weight
- quatro
quatro
99,648 corpus weight
- polícia
polícia
99,644 corpus weight
What this shows “população” está entre estes pares FrequencyWords; a profundidade de typo mede-se à parte no gráfico de distância de edição.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | população |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /po.pu.la.ˈsãw/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #351 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “população”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around população (IPA /po.pu.la.ˈsãw/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #351 among 1,578 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for população, with forms such as "oppulação", "popluação", and "poppulação". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Portuguese form is população, spelled P-O-P-U-L-A-Ç-Ã-O.
Definition
- 1conjunto de pessoas que habitam uma certa região num certo momento
- 2quantidade de habitantes de uma certa região num certo momento
- 3conjunto de seres vivos da mesma espécie que habitam uma certa região num certo momento
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- oppulação
- popluação
- poppulação
- popualção
- populaãço
- populaçoã
- popullação
- populçaão
- pouplação
- ppopulação
- ppoulação
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of população - 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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).