sigilo
/si.ˈʒi.lu/
The verdict
“sigilo” has 8 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #7,977. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #7,977
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,185
- “S” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - convenção que indica segredo, sinete
Corpus desk
Index PT-sigilo · sigilo · Portuguese
sigilo · rank #7,977 · 8 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,977
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,185
- PHOTO-FINISH suma
Nearest frequency peer: suma (+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 “sigilo”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- rebelião
rebelião
92,032 corpus weight
- sigilo
sigilo
92,024 corpus weight
- suma
suma
92,023 corpus weight
- tampa
tampa
92,021 corpus weight
- telefonia
telefonia
92,020 corpus weight
- touro
touro
92,018 corpus weight
What this shows “sigilo” 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 | sigilo |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /si.ˈʒi.lu/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #7,977 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “sigilo”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around sigilo (IPA /si.ˈʒi.lu/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #7,977 among 1,185 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for sigilo, with forms such as "isgilo", "sgiilo", and "siggilo". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "silo", "sítio", "sigla", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 sigilo, spelled S-I-G-I-L-O.
Definition
- 1convenção que indica segredo, sinete
- 2mistério
- 3absoluta discrição
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how sigilo appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
No Capítulo dos Direitos Individuais e Coletivos, dispõe seu artigo 5º, inciso XII, que “é inviolável o sigilo da correspondência e das comunicações telegráficas, de dados e das comunicações telefônicas, salvo, no último caso, por ordem judicial, nas hipóteses e na forma que a lei estabelecer para fins de investigação criminal ou instrução processual penal”.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- isgilo
- sgiilo
- siggilo
- sigillo
- sigiol
- siglio
- siiglo
- ssigilo
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of sigilo - 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.
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 "sigilo", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).