alternância
/aw.teɾ.ˈnɐ̃.sjɐ/, /aw.teʁ.ˈnɐ̃.sjɐ/
The verdict
“alternância” has 16 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #34,546. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #34,546
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 4,352
- “A” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - sucessão recíproca de coisas no espaço e no tempo
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | alternância |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /aw.teɾ.ˈnɐ̃.sjɐ/, /aw.teʁ.ˈnɐ̃.sjɐ/ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #34,546 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “alternância” sits in Portuguese frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around alternância (IPA /aw.teɾ.ˈnɐ̃.sjɐ/, /aw.teʁ.ˈnɐ̃.sjɐ/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #34,546 among 4,352 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "sucessão recíproca de coisas no espaço e no tempo".
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for alternância, with forms such as "aletrnância", "allternância", and "altenrância". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is alternância, spelled A-L-T-E-R-N-Â-N-C-I-A.
Definition
- 1sucessão recíproca de coisas no espaço e no tempo
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aletrnância
- allternância
- altenrância
- alternnâcia
- alternnância
- alternâcnia
- alternâncai
- alternânccia
- alternânica
- alternânncia
- alterrnância
- alterânncia
- altrenância
- altternância
- atlernância
- laternância
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of alternância - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 “alternância”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is A-L-T-E-R-N-Â-N-C-I-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /aw.teɾ.ˈnɐ̃.sjɐ/, /aw.teʁ.ˈnɐ̃.sjɐ/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.