civilização
Letters
11 characters
Frequency Rank
#4,982
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
14
tracked variants
Confusables
1
similar word pairs
civilização is aPortuguesenoun. It means: ato ou efeito de civilizar Pronounced /sɨ.vɨ.li.zɐ.ˈsɐ̃w̃/. It ranks #4,982 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with civilizado.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | civilização |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /sɨ.vɨ.li.zɐ.ˈsɐ̃w̃/ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #4,982 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for civilização is 11 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /sɨ.vɨ.li.zɐ.ˈsɐ̃w̃/. Corpus data places it at rank #4,982 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for civilização, with forms such as "ccivilização", "ciivlização", and "civiilzação". 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, "civilizado", 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 civilização, spelled C-I-V-I-L-I-Z-A-Ç-Ã-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1ato ou efeito de civilizar
- 2instituições, costumes, técnicas, crenças, etc que caracterizam uma sociedade ou um grupo de sociedades
- 3perfeição do estado social
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccivilização,ciivlização,civiilzação,civiliazção,civilizaãço,civilizaçoã,civilizzação,civilizçaão,civillização,civilziação,civliização,civvilização,cviilização,icvilização
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for civilização
Misspelling Variants of "civilização"
Frequency rank: #4,982 in Portuguese
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