resiliência
The verdict
“resiliência” has 15 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #22,148. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #22,148
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,668
- “R” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - propriedade do material de retornar à forma ou posição original uma vez cessada a tensão sobre o mesmo
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 | resiliência |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #22,148 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “resiliência” sits in Portuguese frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around resiliência, anoun. Corpus frequency is #22,148 among 1,668 “R” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for resiliência, with forms such as "ersiliência", "reisliência", and "resiilência". 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, "resistência", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Portuguese form is resiliência, spelled R-E-S-I-L-I-Ê-N-C-I-A.
Definition
- 1propriedade do material de retornar à forma ou posição original uma vez cessada a tensão sobre o mesmo
- 2habilidade que uma pessoa desenvolve para resistir, lidar e reagir de modo positivo em situações adversas
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ersiliência
- reisliência
- resiilência
- resilinêcia
- resiliêcnia
- resiliêncai
- resiliênccia
- resiliênica
- resiliênncia
- resilliência
- resilêincia
- resliiência
- ressiliência
- rresiliência
- rseiliência
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of resiliência - 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 “resiliência”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is R-E-S-I-L-I-Ê-N-C-I-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Don't mix it up with “resistência” - see the side-by-side comparison. resiliência vs resistência
- 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.