ação
The verdict
“ação” is in the everyday core of Portuguese, ranked #594 in Portuguese word frequency and used as an interjection.
- #594
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 4
- letters
- 3
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
Dominant Wiktionary sense: expressa a grupo de participantes envolvidos em uma interpretação e sua gravação, que dêem início à sua atividade coordenada e conjuntamente
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ação |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| IPA | /ɐ.ˈsɐ̃u̯ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #594 |
| Misspellings tracked | 3 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “ação” sits in Portuguese frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for ação is 4 letters long, classified as an interjection, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ɐ.ˈsɐ̃u̯. Corpus data places it at rank #594 in overall Portuguese word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "expressa a grupo de participantes envolvidos em uma interpretação e sua gravação, que dêem início à sua atividade coordenada e conjuntamente".
Our generated misspelling index lists 3 likely wrong-spelling variants for ação, with forms such as "aãço", "açoã", and "çaão". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ao", "ano", "amo", and more, 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 ação, spelled A-Ç-Ã-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1expressa a grupo de participantes envolvidos em uma interpretação e sua gravação, que dêem início à sua atividade coordenada e conjuntamente
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: aãço,açoã,çaão
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of ação — measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
Edit distance from "ação"
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 “ação”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is A-Ç-Ã-O — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ɐ.ˈsɐ̃u̯ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “ao” — see the side-by-side comparison. ação vs ao
- Browse more Portuguese words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Portuguese words
Nearby Portuguese words
Other entries that begin with the letter A in our Portuguese index: