prospecção
The verdict
“prospecção” has 14 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #23,099. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #23,099
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 3,113
- “P” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - análise de um terreno para determinar o valor de seus minérios
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 | prospecção |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #23,099 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “prospecção” sits in Portuguese frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around prospecção, anoun. Corpus frequency is #23,099 among 3,113 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "análise de um terreno para determinar o valor de seus minérios".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for prospecção, with forms such as "porspecção", "pprospecção", and "propsecção". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "prossecução", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Portuguese form is prospecção, spelled P-R-O-S-P-E-C-Ç-Ã-O.
Definition
- 1análise de um terreno para determinar o valor de seus minérios
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- porspecção
- pprospecção
- propsecção
- prosepcção
- prospceção
- prospeccção
- prospecãço
- prospecçoã
- prospeçcão
- prosppecção
- prosspecção
- prrospecção
- prsopecção
- rpospecção
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of prospecção - 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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Using “prospecção”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is P-R-O-S-P-E-C-Ç-Ã-O - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Don't mix it up with “prossecução” - see the side-by-side comparison. prospecção vs prossecução
- 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.