cidade
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#124
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
7
similar word pairs
cidade is aPortuguesenoun. It means: aglomeração humana localizada numa área geográfica circunscrita e que tem numerosas casas, próximas entre si, destinadas à moradia e/ou a atividades culturais, mercantis, industriais, financeiras e... Pronounced /si.ˈda.dɨ/. It ranks #124 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with citado and cilada.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cidade |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /si.ˈda.dɨ/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #124 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for cidade is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /si.ˈda.dɨ/. Corpus data places it at rank #124 in overall Portuguese word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for cidade, with forms such as "ccidade", "cdiade", and "ciadde". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 7 confusable-pair relationships, "citado", "cilada", "cuidado", 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 cidade, spelled C-I-D-A-D-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1aglomeração humana localizada numa área geográfica circunscrita e que tem numerosas casas, próximas entre si, destinadas à moradia e/ou a atividades culturais, mercantis, industriais, financeiras e a outras não relacionadas com a exploração direta do solo; urbe
- 2povoação de primeira categoria num país
- 3a menor unidade administrativa de um país
- 4conjunto dos habitantes de uma cidade
- 5conjunto de edifícios que formam um todo mais ou menos fechado
- 6grande formigueiro de saúvas, formado por diversos prolongamentos conhecidos como panelas
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccidade,cdiade,ciadde,cidadde,cidaed,ciddade,ciddae,icdade
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for cidade
Misspelling Variants of "cidade"
Frequency rank: #124 in Portuguese
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Nearby Portuguese words
Other entries that begin with the letter C in our Portuguese index: