presídio
/pɾɨ.ˈzi.dju/
The verdict
“presídio” has 11 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #9,909. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #9,909
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 3,113
- “P” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - ato de defender uma praça militar ou fortaleza
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 | presídio |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /pɾɨ.ˈzi.dju/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #9,909 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “presídio” sits in Portuguese frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around presídio (IPA /pɾɨ.ˈzi.dju/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #9,909 among 3,113 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 8 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for presídio, with forms such as "persídio", "ppresídio", and "presdíio". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "presidir", "prestígio", "presidido", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Portuguese form is presídio, spelled P-R-E-S-Í-D-I-O.
Definition
- 1ato de defender uma praça militar ou fortaleza
- 2por metáfora, aquilo que protege; defesa
- 3tropa de guarnição encarregada dessa defesa
- 4praça de guerra defendida pelo presídio
- 5prisão militar
- 6pena de prisão cumprida em fortificação militar
- 7penitenciária, prisão
- 8comitê executivo permanente com plenos poderes de conduzir os negócios internos e externos, nos países comunistas
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- persídio
- ppresídio
- presdíio
- pressídio
- presíddio
- presídoi
- presíido
- preísdio
- prresídio
- prseídio
- rpesídio
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of presídio - 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 “presídio”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is P-R-E-S-Í-D-I-O - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /pɾɨ.ˈzi.dju/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “presidir” - see the side-by-side comparison. presídio vs presidir
- Browse more Portuguese words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Portuguese words
Same frequency band
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.