confeção

noun

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

corpus weight

What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “confeção” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for confeção
PropertyValue
Headwordconfeção
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
Letters8
Frequency rank#94,619
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Cauda longa: rank de “confeção” em português

A frequência vai do punhado de palavras do dia a dia (esquerda) à cauda longa quase nunca usada (direita).confeçãocai nesta cauda de raridade:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

A escala é logarítmica (cada marca ≈ 10× mais rara). Vizinhos raros da mesma faixa: “compassion” (#94,612), “circundar” (#94,596), “credulidade” (#94,642). Entre 2,140 lemas com “C”, “confeção” fica em #94,619. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    preparação; fabricação

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how confeção appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. «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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "confeção"?
"confeção" is spelled C-O-N-F-E-Ç-Ã-O.
What does "confeção" mean?
As a noun, "confeção" means: preparação; fabricação
What language does "confeção" come from?
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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "confeção", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list