prefácio
/pɾɨ.ˈfa.sju/
The verdict
“prefácio” has 11 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #15,654. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #15,654
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,578
- “P” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - texto preliminar de apresentação, geralmente breve, escrito pelo autor ou por outrem, colocado no começo do livro, com explicações sobre seu conteúdo, objetivos ou sobre a pessoa do autor
Corpus desk
Index PT-prefacio · prefácio · Portuguese
prefácio · rank #15,654 · 11 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #15,654
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,578
- PHOTO-FINISH prancha
Nearest frequency peer: prancha (-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 “prefácio”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- paralisia
paralisia
84,357 corpus weight
- paredão
paredão
84,354 corpus weight
- prancha
prancha
84,349 corpus weight
- prefácio
prefácio
84,347 corpus weight
- prolongado
prolongado
84,344 corpus weight
- rastro
rastro
84,338 corpus weight
What this shows “prefácio” 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 | prefácio |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /pɾɨ.ˈfa.sju/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #15,654 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “prefácio”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around prefácio (IPA /pɾɨ.ˈfa.sju/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #15,654 among 1,578 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "texto preliminar de apresentação, geralmente breve, escrito pelo autor ou por outrem, colocado no começo do livro, com explicações sobre seu conteúdo, objetivos ou sobre a pessoa do autor".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for prefácio, with forms such as "perfácio", "pprefácio", and "prefcáio". 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, "pregação", "precário", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct Portuguese form is prefácio, spelled P-R-E-F-Á-C-I-O.
Definition
- 1texto preliminar de apresentação, geralmente breve, escrito pelo autor ou por outrem, colocado no começo do livro, com explicações sobre seu conteúdo, objetivos ou sobre a pessoa do autor
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- perfácio
- pprefácio
- prefcáio
- preffácio
- prefáccio
- prefácoi
- prefáico
- preáfcio
- prfeácio
- prrefácio
- rpefácio
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of prefácio - 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 "prefácio", 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).