Wikipédia
/wi.ki.ˈpɛ.dja/
The verdict
“Wikipédia” is a regularly-used Portuguese word, ranked #9,782 in Portuguese word frequency and used as a noun.
- #9,782
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 9
- letters
- 12
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - enciclopédia online livre cujo conteúdo pode ser ampliado ou alterado por qualquer pessoa, desde que com seriedade e respeito às normas de conduta e de direitos autorais; seu conteúdo é licenciado ...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Wikipédia |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /wi.ki.ˈpɛ.dja/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #9,782 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Wikipédia” sits in Portuguese frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for Wikipédia is 9 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /wi.ki.ˈpɛ.dja/. Corpus data places it at rank #9,782 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "enciclopédia online livre cujo conteúdo pode ser ampliado ou alterado por qualquer pessoa, desde que com seriedade e respeito às normas de conduta e de direitos autorais; seu conteúdo é licenciado ...".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for Wikipédia, with forms such as "iwkipédia", "wiikpédia", and "wikipdéia". 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. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology 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 Wikipédia, spelled W-I-K-I-P-É-D-I-A.
Definition
- 1enciclopédia online livre cujo conteúdo pode ser ampliado ou alterado por qualquer pessoa, desde que com seriedade e respeito às normas de conduta e de direitos autorais; seu conteúdo é licenciado pela GNU Free Documentation License e pela Creative Commons SA 4.0
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: iwkipédia,wiikpédia,wikipdéia,wikippédia,wikipédai,wikipéddia,wikipéida,wikiépdia,wikkipédia,wikpiédia,wkiipédia,wwikipédia
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Wikipédia - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Using “Wikipédia”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is W-I-K-I-P-É-D-I-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /wi.ki.ˈpɛ.dja/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more Portuguese words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Portuguese words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.