porcaria
/puɾ.kɐ.ˈɾi.ɐ/
The verdict
“porcaria” has 11 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #7,320. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #7,320
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,578
- “P” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - que é ruim, de má qualidade, malfeito
Corpus desk
Index PT-porcaria · porcaria · Portuguese
porcaria · rank #7,320 · 11 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,320
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,578
- PHOTO-FINISH petição
Nearest frequency peer: petição (-3 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 “porcaria”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- maçã
maçã
92,692 corpus weight
- money
money
92,691 corpus weight
- panela
panela
92,686 corpus weight
- petição
petição
92,684 corpus weight
- porcaria
porcaria
92,681 corpus weight
- quebrado
quebrado
92,673 corpus weight
What this shows “porcaria” 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 | porcaria |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /puɾ.kɐ.ˈɾi.ɐ/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #7,320 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “porcaria”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around porcaria (IPA /puɾ.kɐ.ˈɾi.ɐ/), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #7,320 among 1,578 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for porcaria, with forms such as "oprcaria", "pocraria", and "poracria". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "portaria", "parceria", "pontaria", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
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. The correct Portuguese form is porcaria, spelled P-O-R-C-A-R-I-A.
Definition
- 1que é ruim, de má qualidade, malfeito
- 2pessoa imprestável
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how porcaria appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Que atendente porcaria!
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- oprcaria
- pocraria
- poracria
- porcaira
- porcarai
- porcarria
- porccaria
- porcraia
- porrcaria
- pporcaria
- procaria
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of porcaria - 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 "porcaria", 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 (11 here; floor ≥5).