preocupante
The verdict
“preocupante” is a moderately-common Portuguese word, ranked #11,938 in Portuguese word frequency and used as an adjective.
- #11,938
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 11
- letters
- 16
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - que causa preocupação, que causa um pensamento de medo a algo que pode acontecer
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | preocupante |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #11,938 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “preocupante” sits in Portuguese frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for preocupante is 11 letters long, classified as an adjective. Corpus data places it at rank #11,938 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "que causa preocupação, que causa um pensamento de medo a algo que pode acontecer".
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for preocupante, with forms such as "perocupante", "ppreocupante", and "precoupante". 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. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented 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 preocupante, spelled P-R-E-O-C-U-P-A-N-T-E.
Definition
- 1que causa preocupação, que causa um pensamento de medo a algo que pode acontecer
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: perocupante,ppreocupante,precoupante,preoccupante,preocpuante,preocuapnte,preocupanet,preocupannte,preocupantte,preocupatne,preocupnate,preocuppante,preoucpante,proecupante,prreocupante,rpeocupante
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of preocupante - 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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Using “preocupante”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is P-R-E-O-C-U-P-A-N-T-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Browse more Portuguese words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Portuguese words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.