silício
/siˈłisju/
The verdict
“silício” has 9 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #17,640. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #17,640
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,185
- “S” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - elemento químico de símbolo Si, possui o número atômico 14 e massa atômica relativa 28,086; é o segundo elemento mais abundante da terra, é encontrado na argila, no granito no quartzo e na areia; é...
Corpus desk
Index PT-silicio · silício · Portuguese
silício · rank #17,640 · 9 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #17,640
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,185
- PHOTO-FINISH smile
Nearest frequency peer: smile (+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 “silício”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- safra
safra
82,366 corpus weight
- sediado
sediado
82,364 corpus weight
- silício
silício
82,361 corpus weight
- smile
smile
82,360 corpus weight
- suavemente
suavemente
82,356 corpus weight
- sujar
sujar
82,354 corpus weight
What this shows “silício” 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 | silício |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /siˈłisju/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #17,640 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “silício”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around silício (IPA /siˈłisju/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #17,640 among 1,185 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "elemento químico de símbolo Si, possui o número atômico 14 e massa atômica relativa 28,086; é o segundo elemento mais abundante da terra, é encontrado na argila, no granito no quartzo e na areia; é...".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for silício, with forms such as "islício", "silcíio", and "sillício". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "silicon", "sílica", "silêncio", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Portuguese form is silício, spelled S-I-L-Í-C-I-O.
Definition
- 1elemento químico de símbolo Si, possui o número atômico 14 e massa atômica relativa 28,086; é o segundo elemento mais abundante da terra, é encontrado na argila, no granito no quartzo e na areia; é o principal elemento do vidro, cimento, cerâmica e da maioria dos componentes semicondutores eletrônicos
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- islício
- silcíio
- sillício
- silíccio
- silícoi
- silíico
- siílcio
- sliício
- ssilício
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of silício - 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 "silício", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).