silêncio
/si.ˈlẽ.sju/
The verdict
“silêncio” has 11 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #1,411. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,411
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,185
- “S” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - ausência de ruído
Corpus desk
Index PT-silencio · silêncio · Portuguese
silêncio · rank #1,411 · 11 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,411
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,185
- PHOTO-FINISH seguro
Nearest frequency peer: seguro (-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 “silêncio”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- regiões
regiões
98,593 corpus weight
- seguro
seguro
98,591 corpus weight
- silêncio
silêncio
98,590 corpus weight
- teste
teste
98,589 corpus weight
- técnico
técnico
98,588 corpus weight
- violência
violência
98,587 corpus weight
What this shows “silêncio” 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 | silêncio |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /si.ˈlẽ.sju/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #1,411 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “silêncio”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around silêncio (IPA /si.ˈlẽ.sju/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #1,411 among 1,185 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for silêncio, with forms such as "islêncio", "sillêncio", and "silnêcio". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "silício", "silencioso", "silenciar", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Portuguese form is silêncio, spelled S-I-L-Ê-N-C-I-O.
Definition
- 1ausência de ruído
- 2sossego
- 3segredo
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how silêncio appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Não foi por falta de assunto que empresários e dirigentes das maiores companhias instaladas no País permaneceram praticamente em silêncio ao longo das três horas do encontro que mantiveram com o presidente Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva e os ministros da área econômica, além da ministra-chefe da Casa Civil, Dilma Rousseff.
Sempre se fala dos soldados que foram mortos, etc., mas e sobre as mulheres que sofrem em silêncio?
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- islêncio
- sillêncio
- silnêcio
- silêcnio
- silênccio
- silêncoi
- silênico
- silênncio
- siêlncio
- sliêncio
- ssilêncio
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of silêncio - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).