providência
/pɾu.vi.ˈdẽ.sjɐ/
The verdict
“providência” has 16 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #14,005. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #14,005
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 3,113
- “P” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - medida que se toma para evitar um mal ou para corrigir uma situação irregular ou indesejável
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 | providência |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /pɾu.vi.ˈdẽ.sjɐ/ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #14,005 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “providência” sits in Portuguese frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around providência (IPA /pɾu.vi.ˈdẽ.sjɐ/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #14,005 among 3,113 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for providência, with forms such as "porvidência", "pprovidência", and "proivdência". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "província", "providenciar", "presidência", 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 any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Portuguese form is providência, spelled P-R-O-V-I-D-Ê-N-C-I-A.
Definition
- 1medida que se toma para evitar um mal ou para corrigir uma situação irregular ou indesejável
- 2a sabedoria de Deus
- 3presciência do futuro
- 4disposição prévia
- 5acontecimento feliz
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- porvidência
- pprovidência
- proivdência
- provdiência
- providdência
- providnêcia
- providêcnia
- providêncai
- providênccia
- providênica
- providênncia
- proviêdncia
- provvidência
- prrovidência
- prvoidência
- rpovidência
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of providência - 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 “providência”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is P-R-O-V-I-D-Ê-N-C-I-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /pɾu.vi.ˈdẽ.sjɐ/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “província” - see the side-by-side comparison. providência vs província
- 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.