precipitar
/pɾɨ.si.pi.ˈtaɾ/
The verdict
“precipitar” has 15 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #37,054. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #37,054
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,578
- “P” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - fazer com que algo ocorra mais rapidamente
Corpus desk
Index PT-precipitar · precipitar · Portuguese
precipitar · rank #37,054 · 15 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #37,054
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,578
- PHOTO-FINISH predomínio
Nearest frequency peer: predomínio (+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 “precipitar”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- precipitar
precipitar
62,947 corpus weight
- predomínio
predomínio
62,946 corpus weight
- primordialm…
primordialmente
62,942 corpus weight
- procedente
procedente
62,941 corpus weight
- profissiona…
profissionalizar
62,940 corpus weight
- pulsação
pulsação
62,938 corpus weight
What this shows “precipitar” 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 | precipitar |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /pɾɨ.si.pi.ˈtaɾ/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #37,054 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “precipitar”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around precipitar (IPA /pɾɨ.si.pi.ˈtaɾ/), averb. Corpus frequency is #37,054 among 1,578 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for precipitar, with forms such as "percipitar", "pprecipitar", and "prceipitar". 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, "precipitado", 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 any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Portuguese form is precipitar, spelled P-R-E-C-I-P-I-T-A-R.
Definition
- 1fazer com que algo ocorra mais rapidamente
- 2fazer cair; fazer chegar ao fundo
- 3agir de maneira impensada
- 4chover, garoar, chuviscar
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how precipitar appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
A entrega do Ministério de Minas e Energia ao político maranhense Edison Lobão … tem tudo para precipitar um desastre para a economia nacional que seria também um desastre político para o governo.
Inicialmente, o torrão de terra não foi capaz de entrar no forno, e os cientistas tiveram de vibrar o instrumento por vários dias, até precipitar uma amostra pela abertura.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- percipitar
- pprecipitar
- prceipitar
- preccipitar
- preciiptar
- precipiatr
- precipitarr
- precipitra
- precipittar
- precippitar
- preciptiar
- precpiitar
- preicpitar
- prrecipitar
- rpecipitar
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of precipitar - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (15 here; floor ≥5).