sacristia
/sa.kɾiʃ.ˈti.ɐ/
The verdict
“sacristia” is a moderately-common Portuguese word, ranked #47,070 in Portuguese word frequency and used as a noun.
- #47,070
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 9
- letters
- 13
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - cômodo de uma igreja onde se guardam objetos sagrados e vestimentas
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sacristia |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /sa.kɾiʃ.ˈti.ɐ/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #47,070 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “sacristia” sits in Portuguese frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for sacristia is 9 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /sa.kɾiʃ.ˈti.ɐ/. Corpus data places it at rank #47,070 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "cômodo de uma igreja onde se guardam objetos sagrados e vestimentas".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for sacristia, with forms such as "ascristia", "saccristia", and "sacirstia". 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. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Portuguese form is sacristia, spelled S-A-C-R-I-S-T-I-A.
Definition
- 1cômodo de uma igreja onde se guardam objetos sagrados e vestimentas
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ascristia,saccristia,sacirstia,sacrisita,sacrisstia,sacristai,sacristtia,sacritsia,sacrristia,sacrsitia,sarcistia,scaristia,ssacristia
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of sacristia - 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 “sacristia”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is S-A-C-R-I-S-T-I-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /sa.kɾiʃ.ˈti.ɐ/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more Portuguese words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Portuguese words
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.