ausência

//aw.ˈzẽ.sjɐ// noun

Letters

8 characters

Frequency Rank

#2,353

in Portuguese word usage

Misspellings

10

tracked variants

Confusables

3

similar word pairs

ausência is aPortuguesenoun. It means: a não presença Pronounced /aw.ˈzẽ.sjɐ/. It ranks #2,353 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with agência and anuência.

Key facts for ausência
PropertyValue
Headwordausência
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
IPA/aw.ˈzẽ.sjɐ/
Letters8
Frequency rank#2,353
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs3
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of ausência in Portuguese word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for ausência is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /aw.ˈzẽ.sjɐ/. Corpus data places it at rank #2,353 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for ausência, with forms such as "asuência", "ausnêcia", and "aussência". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "agência", "anuência", "audiência", 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 ausência, spelled A-U-S-Ê-N-C-I-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    a não presença
  2. 2
    período durante o qual se está ausente
  3. 3
    8 Uma ausência de várias semanas.
  4. 4
    incapacidade de estar presente quando requisitado
  5. 5
    falta, deficiência

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: asuência,ausnêcia,aussência,ausêcnia,ausêncai,ausênccia,ausênica,ausênncia,auêsncia,uasência

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for ausência

Misspelling Variants of "ausência"

asuência8ausnêcia8aussência9ausêcnia8ausêncai8ausênccia9ausênica8ausênncia9
Misspelling Variants of "ausência"

Frequency rank: #2,353 in Portuguese

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "ausência"?
"ausência" is spelled A-U-S-Ê-N-C-I-A. The IPA pronunciation is /aw.ˈzẽ.sjɐ/.
What does "ausência" mean?
As a noun, "ausência" means: a não presença
What words are commonly confused with "ausência"?
"ausência" is commonly confused with "agência", "anuência", "audiência". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "ausência"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "ausência" is /aw.ˈzẽ.sjɐ/. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "ausência" come from?
"ausência" is a Portuguese word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Nearby Portuguese words

Other entries that begin with the letter A in our Portuguese index:

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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.