cidade

//si.ˈda.dɨ// noun

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.

Key facts for cidade
PropertyValue
Headwordcidade
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
IPA/si.ˈda.dɨ/
Letters6
Frequency rank#124
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs7
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

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

  1. 1
    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 a outras não relacionadas com a exploração direta do solo; urbe
  2. 2
    povoação de primeira categoria num país
  3. 3
    a menor unidade administrativa de um país
  4. 4
    conjunto dos habitantes de uma cidade
  5. 5
    conjunto de edifícios que formam um todo mais ou menos fechado
  6. 6
    grande formigueiro de saúvas, formado por diversos prolongamentos conhecidos como panelas

Synonyms

This word in other languages

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"

ccidade7cdiade6ciadde6cidadde7cidaed6ciddade7ciddae6icdade6
Misspelling Variants of "cidade"

Frequency rank: #124 in Portuguese

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "cidade"?
"cidade" is spelled C-I-D-A-D-E. The IPA pronunciation is /si.ˈda.dɨ/.
What does "cidade" mean?
As a noun, "cidade" 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...
What words are commonly confused with "cidade"?
"cidade" is commonly confused with "citado", "cilada", "cuidado". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "cidade"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "cidade" is /si.ˈda.dɨ/. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "cidade" come from?
"cidade" is a Portuguese word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Nearby Portuguese words

Other entries that begin with the letter C in our Portuguese index:

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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.