público
/ˈpu.bli.ku/
The verdict
“público” has 10 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #300. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #300
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,578
- “P” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - que pertence ao povo
Corpus desk
Index PT-publico · público · Portuguese
público · rank #300 · 10 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-CORE #300
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,578
- PHOTO-FINISH problema
Nearest frequency peer: problema (-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 “público”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- partir
partir
99,703 corpus weight
- problema
problema
99,702 corpus weight
- público
público
99,701 corpus weight
- site
site
99,700 corpus weight
- and
and
99,698 corpus weight
- comigo
comigo
99,697 corpus weight
What this shows “público” 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 | público |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ˈpu.bli.ku/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #300 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “público”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around público (IPA /ˈpu.bli.ku/), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #300 among 1,578 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for público, with forms such as "pbúlico", "ppúblico", and "púbblico". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "public", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Portuguese form is público, spelled P-Ú-B-L-I-C-O.
Definition
- 1que pertence ao povo
- 2relativo ao governo
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- pbúlico
- ppúblico
- púbblico
- púbilco
- públcio
- públicco
- públioc
- públlico
- púlbico
- úpblico
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of público - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 "público", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).