Ação de Graças
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
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Ação de Graças |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Ação de Graças” sits in Portuguese frequency
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
- 1comemoração 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.
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Using “Ação de Graças”
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- 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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