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
- 1,578
- “P” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - medida que se toma para evitar um mal ou para corrigir uma situação irregular ou indesejável
Corpus desk
Index PT-providencia · providência · Portuguese
providência · rank #14,005 · 16 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,005
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 16 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,578
- PHOTO-FINISH provisório
Nearest frequency peer: provisório (+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 “providência”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- precedente
precedente
86,001 corpus weight
- providência
providência
85,996 corpus weight
- provisório
provisório
85,995 corpus weight
- pólvora
pólvora
85,992 corpus weight
- quaresma
quaresma
85,991 corpus weight
- recinto
recinto
85,987 corpus weight
What this shows “providência” 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 | 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) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “providência”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around providência (IPA /pɾu.vi.ˈdẽ.sjɐ/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #14,005 among 1,578 “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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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "providência", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (16 here; floor ≥5).