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
- 1,578
- “P” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - ato de defender uma praça militar ou fortaleza
Corpus desk
Index PT-presidio · presídio · Portuguese
presídio · rank #9,909 · 11 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,909
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,578
- PHOTO-FINISH prestígio
Nearest frequency peer: prestígio (-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 “presídio”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- prestígio
prestígio
90,093 corpus weight
- presídio
presídio
90,092 corpus weight
- prudente
prudente
90,090 corpus weight
- public
public
90,089 corpus weight
- recolha
recolha
90,088 corpus weight
- relembrar
relembrar
90,086 corpus weight
What this shows “presídio” 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 | 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) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “presídio”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around presídio (IPA /pɾɨ.ˈzi.dju/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #9,909 among 1,578 “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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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "presídio", 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).