vacina

noun

The verdict

“vacina” has 8 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #6,484. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#6,484
frequency rank, Portuguese
501
“V” headwords
8
tracked misspellings
7
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - preparação usada como inoculação preventiva para dar imunidade contra uma doença específica e que usualmente emprega uma forma enfraquecida do agente patogênico

Corpus desk

Index PT-vacina · vacina · Portuguese

vacina · rank #6,484 · 8 variants · 7 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #6,484
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
  • VAR-MID 8 variants
  • BOOK-MID 501
  • PHOTO-FINISH transparente

Nearest frequency peer: transparente (-2 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 “vacina”

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

corpus weight

What this shows “vacina” 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).

vacina vs vaia
67% similar
vacina vs valia
67% similar
vacina vs vagina
83% similar

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

Key facts for vacina
PropertyValue
Headwordvacina
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
Letters6
Frequency rank#6,484
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs7
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequência do íman ortográfico “vacina”

A frequência vai do punhado de palavras do dia a dia (esquerda) à cauda longa quase nunca usada (direita).vacinacai aqui:

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

Os ticks avançam em logaritmo; cada um é da ordem de dez vezes mais raro. Na mesma faixa de raridade aparecem “transparente” (#6,482), “veneno” (#6,486), “vier” (#6,487). Entre 501 lemas com “V”, “vacina” fica em #6,484. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 8 spelling variants around vacina, anoun. Corpus frequency is #6,484 among 501 “V” headwords. Dominant gloss: "preparação usada como inoculação preventiva para dar imunidade contra uma doença específica e que usualmente emprega uma forma enfraquecida do agente patogênico".

Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for vacina, with forms such as "avcina", "vaccina", and "vacian". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "vaia", "valia", "vagina", 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, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Portuguese form is vacina, spelled V-A-C-I-N-A.

Definition

  1. 1
    preparação usada como inoculação preventiva para dar imunidade contra uma doença específica e que usualmente emprega uma forma enfraquecida do agente patogênico

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. Desde dezembro, 6,8 milhões de doses da vacina foram aplicadas no País.

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • avcina
  • vaccina
  • vacian
  • vacinna
  • vacnia
  • vaicna
  • vcaina
  • vvacina

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

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

avcina2vaccina1vacian2vacinna1vacnia2vaicna2vcaina2vvacina1
Edit distance from "vacina"

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 "vacina"?
"vacina" is spelled V-A-C-I-N-A.
What does "vacina" mean?
As a noun, "vacina" means: preparação usada como inoculação preventiva para dar imunidade contra uma doença específica e que usualmente emprega uma forma enfraquecida do agente patogênico
What words are commonly confused with "vacina"?
"vacina" is commonly confused with "vaia", "valia", "vagina". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "vacina" come from?
"vacina" is a Portuguese word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "vacina", 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).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list