confeção
The verdict
“confeção” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #94,619 among 2,140 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #94,619
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 2,140
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - preparação; fabricação
Corpus desk
Index PT-confecao · confeção · Portuguese
confeção · rank #94,619 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #94,619
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,140
- PHOTO-FINISH compassion
Nearest frequency peer: compassion (-7 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Ranks da cauda longa perto de “confeção”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- cavilha
cavilha
5,425 corpus weight
- circundar
circundar
5,405 corpus weight
- compassion
compassion
5,389 corpus weight
- confeção
confeção
5,382 corpus weight
- credulidade
credulidade
5,359 corpus weight
- desindustri…
desindustrialização
5,327 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “confeção” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | confeção |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #94,619 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “confeção” em português
Rare enough to double-check
confeção is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #94,619 among 2,140 “C” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "preparação; fabricação".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for confeção, a sign its spelling follows regular Portuguese conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Portuguese form is confeção, spelled C-O-N-F-E-Ç-Ã-O.
Definition
- 1preparação; fabricação
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how confeção appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
«A empresa investiu em novas máquinas para modernizar a linha de confeção de vestuário desportivo.»
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Portuguese corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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