secular

adj

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The verdict

“secular” has 10 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #12,773. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#12,773
frequency rank, Portuguese
1,185
“S” headwords
10
tracked misspellings
5
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - relativo a século

Corpus desk

Index PT-secular · secular · Portuguese

secular · rank #12,773 · 10 variants · 5 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #12,773
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
  • VAR-MID 10 variants
  • BOOK-MID 1,185
  • PHOTO-FINISH sustento

Nearest frequency peer: sustento (+6 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 “secular”

Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho

corpus weight

What this shows “secular” está entre estes pares FrequencyWords; a profundidade de typo mede-se à parte no gráfico de distância de edição.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

secular vs selar
71% similar
secular vs século
57% similar
secular vs segurar
71% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for secular
PropertyValue
Headwordsecular
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechAdjective
Letters7
Frequency rank#12,773
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs5
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequência do íman ortográfico “secular”

Esta escala corre do núcleo do português quotidiano (esquerda) até o rastro de formas raras (direita).secularcai aqui:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

O eixo é logarítmico: cada tick marca cerca de dez vezes menos frequência. Na mesma faixa de raridade aparecem “sustento” (#12,779), “rex” (#12,766), “sutiã” (#12,780). Entre 1,185 lemas com “S”, “secular” fica em #12,773. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 10 spelling variants around secular, anadjective. Corpus frequency is #12,773 among 1,185 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 6 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for secular, with forms such as "escular", "sceular", and "seccular". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "selar", "século", "segurar", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is secular, spelled S-E-C-U-L-A-R.

Definition

  1. 1
    relativo a século
  2. 2
    que se faz ou se cumpre de século a século
  3. 3
    que é muito antigo, que dura há muitos anos
  4. 4
    tão longo, tão dilatado, tão demorado, que parece durar um século
  5. 5
    próprio do século; que não cabe à Igreja; profano, temporal, mundano
  6. 6
    que ou aquele que vive no século, no mundo, que não fez votos religiosos, que não está sujeito a ordens monásticas (diz-se de eclesiástico ou freira que parcipa do século, da vida civil)

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how secular appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Então, uma decisão que obrigar o representante a ficar no partido pelo qual foi eleito trairia a secular tradição da escolha pessoal.
  2. O incidente mostra até que ponto a visita do Papa acirra os ânimos na Turquia, o país mais secular do mundo muçulmano.

Synonyms

laicallaicoleigalleigomundanoprofanotemporal

Antonyms

cenobíticoeclesiásticoespiritualfreiralfreiráticomísticomonacalmonásticoprofessoregularreligiososacrosagrado

This word in other languages

secular(English)secular(Español)seculaire(Français)hundertjährig(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • escular
  • sceular
  • seccular
  • secluar
  • secualr
  • secularr
  • secullar
  • seculra
  • seuclar
  • ssecular

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of secular - 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.

escular2sceular2seccular1secluar2secualr2secularr1secullar1seculra2
Edit distance from "secular"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "secular"?
"secular" is spelled S-E-C-U-L-A-R.
What does "secular" mean?
As an adjective, "secular" means: relativo a século
What words are commonly confused with "secular"?
"secular" is commonly confused with "selar", "século", "segurar". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "secular" come from?
"secular" is a Portuguese word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "secular", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

perfect#12,745nothing#12,733mordida#12,725milícia#12,721

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).

decorar10 variantsforense10 variantsfalante10 variantsesponja10 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list