Ação de Graças

phrase

The verdict

“Ação de Graças” is outside the top-ranked Portuguese vocabulary, used as a phrase — the kind of word writers most often double-check.

Unranked
below top-frequency Portuguese
14
letters

Dominant Wiktionary sense: comemoração religiosa, oriunda dos Estados Unidos e Canadá e comemorada extraoficialmente no Brasil, que ocorre numa quarta quinta-feira de novembro, entre o dia 22 dele e o 28 dele

Key facts for Ação de Graças
PropertyValue
HeadwordAção de Graças
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechPhrase
Letters14
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “Ação de Graças” sits in Portuguese frequency

Ação de Graças falls outside the top-100,000 ranked Portuguese words — the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for Ação de Graças is 14 letters long, classified as a phrase. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "comemoração religiosa, oriunda dos Estados Unidos e Canadá e comemorada extraoficialmente no Brasil, que ocorre numa quarta quinta-feira de novembro, entre o dia 22 dele e o 28 dele".

No misspelling variants are generated for Ação de Graças in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Portuguese patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

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 de Graças, spelled A-Ç-Ã-O- -D-E- -G-R-A-Ç-A-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    comemoração religiosa, oriunda dos Estados Unidos e Canadá e comemorada extraoficialmente no Brasil, que ocorre numa quarta quinta-feira de novembro, entre o dia 22 dele e o 28 dele

This word in other languages

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Ação de Graças"?
"Ação de Graças" is spelled A-Ç-Ã-O- -D-E- -G-R-A-Ç-A-S.
What does "Ação de Graças" mean?
As a phrase, "Ação de Graças" means: comemoração religiosa, oriunda dos Estados Unidos e Canadá e comemorada extraoficialmente no Brasil, que ocorre numa quarta quinta-feira de novembro, entre o dia 22 dele e o 28 dele
What language does "Ação de Graças" come from?
"Ação de Graças" is a Portuguese word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Using “Ação de Graças”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct Portuguese spelling is A-Ç-Ã-O- -D-E- -G-R-A-Ç-A-S — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list FrequencyWords open word-frequency list