pupila
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#27,238
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
2
similar word pairs
pupila is aPortuguesenoun. It means: orifício da íris por onde passam os raios luminosos, popularmente conhecida como menina-do-olho; Pronounced /pu.ˈpi.lɐ/. Often confused with pila and pepita.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pupila |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /pu.ˈpi.lɐ/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #27,238 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for pupila is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /pu.ˈpi.lɐ/. Corpus data places it at rank #27,238 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for pupila, with forms such as "ppuila", "ppupila", and "puipla". 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 also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "pila", "pepita", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 pupila, spelled P-U-P-I-L-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1orifício da íris por onde passam os raios luminosos, popularmente conhecida como menina-do-olho;
- 2educanda; órfã tutelada:
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ppuila,ppupila,puipla,pupial,pupilla,puplia,puppila,uppila
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for pupila
Misspelling Variants of "pupila"
Frequency rank: #27,238 in Portuguese
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