ciência
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,272
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
3
similar word pairs
ciência is aPortuguesenoun. It means: conhecimento aprofundado sobre algo Pronounced /si.ˈeɲ.sjɐ/. It ranks #1,272 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with crença and carência.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ciência |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /si.ˈeɲ.sjɐ/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #1,272 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for ciência is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /si.ˈeɲ.sjɐ/. Corpus data places it at rank #1,272 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for ciência, with forms such as "cciência", "cinêcia", and "ciêcnia". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "crença", "carência", "cadência", 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 ciência, spelled C-I-Ê-N-C-I-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1conhecimento aprofundado sobre algo
- 2erudição, saber em geral
- 3estudo racional das coisas em geral ou de algum assunto específico, visando a produção de um conhecimento objetivo, sistemático e coerente
- 4o conjunto sistematizado de todas as teorias científicas (com destaque para as válidas), do método científico e dos recursos necessários à produção das mesmas
- 5conjunto de todas as áreas da ciência
- 6racionalidade
- 7qualidade de quem está ciente
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: cciência,cinêcia,ciêcnia,ciêncai,ciênccia,ciênica,ciênncia,cêincia,icência
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for ciência
Misspelling Variants of "ciência"
Frequency rank: #1,272 in Portuguese
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Nearby Portuguese words
Other entries that begin with the letter C in our Portuguese index: