carteira de habilitação

phrase

The verdict

“carteira de habilitação” is outside the top-ranked Portuguese vocabulary, used as a phrase - the kind of word writers most often double-check.

Unranked
below top-frequency Portuguese
23
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - documento obrigatório para poder dirigir um veículo automotor

Key facts for carteira de habilitação
PropertyValue
Headwordcarteira de habilitação
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechPhrase
Letters23
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “carteira de habilitação” sits in Portuguese frequency

carteira de habilitação falls outside the top-100,000 ranked Portuguese words, the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for carteira de habilitação is 23 letters long, classified as a phrase. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "documento obrigatório para poder dirigir um veículo automotor".

The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for carteira de habilitação, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.

Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Portuguese form is carteira de habilitação, spelled C-A-R-T-E-I-R-A- -D-E- -H-A-B-I-L-I-T-A-Ç-Ã-O.

Definition

  1. 1
    documento obrigatório para poder dirigir um veículo automotor

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "carteira de habilitação"?
"carteira de habilitação" is spelled C-A-R-T-E-I-R-A- -D-E- -H-A-B-I-L-I-T-A-Ç-Ã-O.
What does "carteira de habilitação" mean?
As a phrase, "carteira de habilitação" means: documento obrigatório para poder dirigir um veículo automotor
What language does "carteira de habilitação" come from?
"carteira de habilitação" is a Portuguese word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Using “carteira de habilitação”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct Portuguese spelling is C-A-R-T-E-I-R-A- -D-E- -H-A-B-I-L-I-T-A-Ç-Ã-O - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • 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.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list FrequencyWords open word-frequency list