prolífico
The verdict
“prolífico” is a moderately-common Portuguese word, ranked #28,728 in Portuguese word frequency and used as an adjective.
- #28,728
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 9
- letters
- 13
- tracked misspellings
Dominant Wiktionary sense: prolífero, fecundo, fértil, produtivo
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | prolífico |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /pɾu.ˈli.fi.ku/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #28,728 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “prolífico” sits in Portuguese frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for prolífico is 9 letters long, classified as an adjective, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /pɾu.ˈli.fi.ku/. Corpus data places it at rank #28,728 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "prolífero, fecundo, fértil, produtivo".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for prolífico, with forms such as "porlífico", "pprolífico", and "prloífico". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Portuguese form is prolífico, spelled P-R-O-L-Í-F-I-C-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1prolífero, fecundo, fértil, produtivo
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: porlífico,pprolífico,prloífico,prolfíico,prollífico,prolífcio,prolíffico,prolíficco,prolífioc,prolíifco,proílfico,prrolífico,rpolífico
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of prolífico — measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
Edit distance from "prolífico"
Frequency rank: #28,728 in Portuguese
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Using “prolífico”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is P-R-O-L-Í-F-I-C-O — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /pɾu.ˈli.fi.ku/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more Portuguese words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Portuguese words
Nearby Portuguese words
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