pregação

noun

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The verdict

“pregação” has 10 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #18,152. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#18,152
frequency rank, Portuguese
1,578
“P” headwords
10
tracked misspellings
4
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - ato de pregar; sermão

Corpus desk

Index PT-pregacao · pregação · Portuguese

pregação · rank #18,152 · 10 variants · 4 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #18,152
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
  • VAR-MID 10 variants
  • BOOK-MID 1,578
  • PHOTO-FINISH precaução

Nearest frequency peer: precaução (-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 “pregação”

Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho

corpus weight

What this shows “pregação” está entre estes pares FrequencyWords; a profundidade de typo mede-se à parte no gráfico de distância de edição.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

pregação vs privação
75% similar
pregação vs prefácio
50% similar
pregação vs predição
75% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for pregação
PropertyValue
Headwordpregação
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
Letters8
Frequency rank#18,152
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs4
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequência do íman ortográfico “pregação”

Esta escala corre do núcleo do português quotidiano (esquerda) até o rastro de formas raras (direita).pregaçãocai aqui:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

O eixo é logarítmico: cada tick marca cerca de dez vezes menos frequência. Na mesma faixa de raridade aparecem “precaução” (#18,151), “police” (#18,149), “prison” (#18,155). Entre 1,578 lemas com “P”, “pregação” fica em #18,152. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 10 spelling variants around pregação, anoun. Corpus frequency is #18,152 among 1,578 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "ato de pregar; sermão".

Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for pregação, with forms such as "pergação", "ppregação", and "preagção". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "privação", "prefácio", "predição", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Portuguese form is pregação, spelled P-R-E-G-A-Ç-Ã-O.

Definition

  1. 1
    ato de pregar; sermão

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how pregação appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. O romancista defendeu suas ideias não com pregação política ou lições de moral, mas por meio da melhor literatura de ficção, aquela que nos faz refletir sobre a história passada e a sociedade atual.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • pergação
  • ppregação
  • preagção
  • pregaãço
  • pregaçoã
  • preggação
  • pregçaão
  • prgeação
  • prregação
  • rpegação

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of pregação - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

pergação2ppregação1preagção2pregaãço2pregaçoã2preggação1pregçaão2prgeação2
Edit distance from "pregação"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "pregação"?
"pregação" is spelled P-R-E-G-A-Ç-Ã-O.
What does "pregação" mean?
As a noun, "pregação" means: ato de pregar; sermão
What words are commonly confused with "pregação"?
"pregação" is commonly confused with "privação", "prefácio", "predição". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "pregação" come from?
"pregação" is a Portuguese word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "pregação", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

arbítrio#18,247estância#18,055detentor#18,032demência#18,023

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).

mirante10 variantstempero10 variantsGeorges10 variantsesfriar10 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list