ceticismo
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#20,812
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
13
tracked variants
Confusables
1
similar word pairs
ceticismo is aPortuguesenoun. It means: postura filosófica em que pessoas escolhem examinar de forma crítica se o conhecimento e percepção que possuem são realmente verdadeiros, e se alguém pode ou não dizer se possui o conhecimento abso... Pronounced /se.ʧi.ˈsis.mu/. Often confused with catecismo.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ceticismo |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /se.ʧi.ˈsis.mu/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #20,812 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for ceticismo is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /se.ʧi.ˈsis.mu/. Corpus data places it at rank #20,812 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 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for ceticismo, with forms such as "cceticismo", "ceitcismo", and "cetciismo". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "catecismo", 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 ceticismo, spelled C-E-T-I-C-I-S-M-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1postura filosófica em que pessoas escolhem examinar de forma crítica se o conhecimento e percepção que possuem são realmente verdadeiros, e se alguém pode ou não dizer se possui o conhecimento absolutamente verdadeiro
- 2postura científica e prática, em que alguém questiona de forma constante e contumaz a veracidade de qualquer alegação; procurando de forma permanente por argumentos que possam corroborá-las ou invalidá-las, fazendo-o sempre em acordo com o método científico
- 3descrença
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: cceticismo,ceitcismo,cetciismo,ceticcismo,ceticimso,ceticismmo,ceticisom,ceticissmo,ceticsimo,cetiicsmo,cetticismo,cteicismo,ecticismo
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Misspelling Variants of "ceticismo"
Frequency rank: #20,812 in Portuguese
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