cacofonia

//kɐ.kɔ.fu.ˈni.ɐ// noun

Letters

9 characters

Frequency Rank

#96,487

in Portuguese word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

cacofonia is aPortuguesenoun. It means: mistura de sons desagradáveis Pronounced /kɐ.kɔ.fu.ˈni.ɐ/.

Key facts for cacofonia
PropertyValue
Headwordcacofonia
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
IPA/kɐ.kɔ.fu.ˈni.ɐ/
Letters9
Frequency rank#96,487
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for cacofonia is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /kɐ.kɔ.fu.ˈni.ɐ/. Corpus data places it at rank #96,487 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for cacofonia in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Portuguese patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

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 cacofonia, spelled C-A-C-O-F-O-N-I-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    mistura de sons desagradáveis
  2. 2
    mistura de sons inarmônicos
  3. 3
    pronúncia errada ou feia da palavra formando cacófato
  4. 4
    cacófato
  5. 5
    barulho estridente
  6. 6
    mistura de sons ou vozes desafinadas

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Frequency rank: #96,487 in Portuguese

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "cacofonia"?
"cacofonia" is spelled C-A-C-O-F-O-N-I-A. The IPA pronunciation is /kɐ.kɔ.fu.ˈni.ɐ/.
What does "cacofonia" mean?
As a noun, "cacofonia" means: mistura de sons desagradáveis
How do you pronounce "cacofonia"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "cacofonia" is /kɐ.kɔ.fu.ˈni.ɐ/. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "cacofonia" come from?
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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.