abnegação
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#36,300
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
2
similar word pairs
abnegação is aPortuguesenoun. It means: renúncia da própria vontade Pronounced /ɐb.nɨ.ɡɐ.ˈsɐ̃w̃/. Often confused with alegação and anexação.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | abnegação |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ɐb.nɨ.ɡɐ.ˈsɐ̃w̃/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #36,300 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for abnegação is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ɐb.nɨ.ɡɐ.ˈsɐ̃w̃/. Corpus data places it at rank #36,300 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for abnegação, with forms such as "abbnegação", "abengação", and "abneagção". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "alegação", "anexação", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Portuguese form is abnegação, spelled A-B-N-E-G-A-Ç-Ã-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1renúncia da própria vontade
- 2desapego do interesse próprio
- 3generosidade com sacrifício
- 4altruísmo, isenção
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: abbnegação,abengação,abneagção,abnegaãço,abnegaçoã,abneggação,abnegçaão,abngeação,abnnegação,anbegação,banegação
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "abnegação"
Frequency rank: #36,300 in Portuguese
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