autocracia
/aw.tɔ.kɾɐ.ˈsi.ɐ/
The verdict
“autocracia” is an uncommon Portuguese word, ranked #57,156 in Portuguese word frequency and used as a noun.
- #57,156
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - forma de governo na qual poder ilimitado está nas mãos de um único indivíduo
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | autocracia |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /aw.tɔ.kɾɐ.ˈsi.ɐ/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #57,156 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “autocracia” sits in Portuguese frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for autocracia is 10 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /aw.tɔ.kɾɐ.ˈsi.ɐ/. Corpus data places it at rank #57,156 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "forma de governo na qual poder ilimitado está nas mãos de um único indivíduo".
No misspelling variants are generated for autocracia in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular Portuguese conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored 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 autocracia, spelled A-U-T-O-C-R-A-C-I-A.
Definition
- 1forma de governo na qual poder ilimitado está nas mãos de um único indivíduo
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); 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 “autocracia”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is A-U-T-O-C-R-A-C-I-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /aw.tɔ.kɾɐ.ˈsi.ɐ/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more Portuguese words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Portuguese words
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.