prisma
/ˈpɾiʒ.mɐ/
The verdict
“prisma” has 9 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #17,894. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #17,894
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,578
- “P” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - sólido com bases paralelas poligonais e paralelogramos como faces laterais
Corpus desk
Index PT-prisma · prisma · Portuguese
prisma · rank #17,894 · 9 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-MID #17,894
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,578
- PHOTO-FINISH presencial
Nearest frequency peer: presencial (-3 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 “prisma”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- potiguar
potiguar
82,113 corpus weight
- prego
prego
82,111 corpus weight
- presencial
presencial
82,110 corpus weight
- prisma
prisma
82,107 corpus weight
- Qatar
Qatar
82,102 corpus weight
- questionário
questionário
82,100 corpus weight
What this shows “prisma” 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 | prisma |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈpɾiʒ.mɐ/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #17,894 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “prisma”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around prisma (IPA /ˈpɾiʒ.mɐ/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #17,894 among 1,578 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for prisma, with forms such as "pirsma", "pprisma", and "primsa". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "prosa", "prison", "pista", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Portuguese form is prisma, spelled P-R-I-S-M-A.
Definition
- 1sólido com bases paralelas poligonais e paralelogramos como faces laterais
- 2sólido com base triangular, de vidro ou cristal, que tem a propriedade de decompor por refração a luz branca em todo o seu espectro de cores
- 3modo particular de ver ou considerar alguma coisa; ponto de vista
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how prisma appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
E é por isso, porque olham para o mundo pelo prisma de ideologias e dos mercados, e não dos sistemas naturais e da Mãe Natureza, que esses dois líderes estão falhando.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- pirsma
- pprisma
- primsa
- prisam
- prismma
- prissma
- prrisma
- prsima
- rpisma
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of prisma - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).