ausência
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ausência |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /aw.ˈzẽ.sjɐ/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #2,353 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
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
- 1a não presença
- 2período durante o qual se está ausente
- 38 Uma ausência de várias semanas.
- 4incapacidade de estar presente quando requisitado
- 5falta, 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"
Frequency rank: #2,353 in Portuguese
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