captação
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#11,597
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
4
similar word pairs
captação is aPortuguesenoun. It means: ato ou efeito de captar Pronounced /kɐp.tɐ.ˈsɐ̃w̃/. Often confused with citação and catalão.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | captação |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /kɐp.tɐ.ˈsɐ̃w̃/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #11,597 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for captação is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /kɐp.tɐ.ˈsɐ̃w̃/. Corpus data places it at rank #11,597 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for captação, with forms such as "acptação", "capatção", and "capptação". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "citação", "catalão", "cotação", and more, 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 captação, spelled C-A-P-T-A-Ç-Ã-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1ato ou efeito de captar
- 2venda por parte de instituição financeira de títulos comerciais ou de renda para obtenção de recursos no mercado
- 3utilização de meios artificiais para a obtenção de vantagem em proveito próprio ou alheio
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: acptação,capatção,capptação,captaãço,captaçoã,capttação,captçaão,catpação,ccaptação,cpatação
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for captação
Misspelling Variants of "captação"
Frequency rank: #11,597 in Portuguese
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Nearby Portuguese words
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