alienação

Name: alienação, Portuguese Word Data
Creator: Wiktionary
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

/ɐ.lje.nɐ.ˈsɐ̃w̃/

//ɐ.lje.nɐ.ˈsɐ̃w̃// noun

By PlainSpell · According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA) · analyzed September 3, 2026

The verdict

“alienação” has 10 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #14,068. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#14,068
frequency rank, Portuguese: 1,900
“A” headwords: 10
tracked misspellings: 4
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - ato ou efeito de alienar(-se)

Corpus desk

Index PT-alienacao · alienação · Portuguese

alienação · rank #14,068 · 10 variants · 4 confusables

FREQ-MID #14,068
LEN-LONG 9 letters
VOW-5 5 vowels
CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
VAR-MID 10 variants
BOOK-MID 1,900
PHOTO-FINISH Amsterdã

Nearest frequency peer: Amsterdã (+1 rank slots)

Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.

afundar

85,935
alienação

85,933
Amsterdã

85,932
apóstolo

85,930
assado

85,928
avaliado

85,926

What this shows “alienação” está entre estes pares FrequencyWords; a profundidade de typo mede-se à parte no gráfico de distância de edição.

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

alienação vs alteração

78% similar

alienação vs alimentação

82% similar

alienação vs alegação

78% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for alienação
Property	Value
Headword	alienação
Language	Portuguese
Part of speech	Noun
IPA	/ɐ.lje.nɐ.ˈsɐ̃w̃/
Letters	9
Frequency rank	#14,068
Misspellings tracked	10
Confusable pairs	4
Source	Wiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequência do íman ortográfico “alienação”

Esta escala corre do núcleo do português quotidiano (esquerda) até o rastro de formas raras (direita).alienaçãocai aqui:

#14,068

#1#100#1K#10K#100K

← used constantlyrarely used →

O eixo é logarítmico: cada tick marca cerca de dez vezes menos frequência. Na mesma faixa de raridade aparecem “Amsterdã” (#14,069), “afundar” (#14,066), “apóstolo” (#14,071). Entre 1,900 lemas com “A”, “alienação” fica em #14,068. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 10 spelling variants around alienação (IPA /ɐ.lje.nɐ.ˈsɐ̃w̃/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #14,068 among 1,900 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 6 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for alienação, with forms such as "ailenação", "aleinação", and "alieanção". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "alteração", "alimentação", "alegação", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Portuguese form is alienação, spelled A-L-I-E-N-A-Ç-Ã-O.

Definition

1
ato ou efeito de alienar(-se)
2
cessão de bens
3
estado resultante da privação de um direito natural
4
no hegelianismo, processo no qual a consciência se torna estranha a si mesma
5
no marxismo, processo em que o ser humano se torna estranho a si mesmo, afastado de sua natureza, pois os objetos que produz existem independentes ao seu poder e têm caráter antagônico aos seus interesses
6
apatia política, indiferença aos problemas sociais

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

ailenação
aleinação
alieanção
alienaãço
alienaçoã
aliennação
aliençaão
alineação
allienação
laienação

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of alienação - 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 "alienação"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "alienação"?

"alienação" is spelled A-L-I-E-N-A-Ç-Ã-O. The IPA pronunciation is /ɐ.lje.nɐ.ˈsɐ̃w̃/.

What does "alienação" mean?

As a noun, "alienação" means: ato ou efeito de alienar(-se)

What words are commonly confused with "alienação"?

"alienação" is commonly confused with "alteração", "alimentação", "alegação". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.

How do you pronounce "alienação"?

The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "alienação" is /ɐ.lje.nɐ.ˈsɐ̃w̃/. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.

What language does "alienação" come from?

"alienação" is a Portuguese word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.

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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "alienação", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).

afundar10 variants avaliado10 variants vibração10 variants bíblico10 variants