congestão
The verdict
“congestão” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #58,416 among 3,948 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,416
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 3,948
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - acúmulo anormal de líquidos ou fluidos
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | congestão |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #58,416 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “congestão” sits in Portuguese frequency
Rare enough to double-check
congestão is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #58,416 among 3,948 “C” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for congestão, a sign its spelling follows regular Portuguese conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Portuguese form is congestão, spelled C-O-N-G-E-S-T-Ã-O.
Definition
- 1acúmulo anormal de líquidos ou fluidos
- 2ato ou efeito de congestionar; aglomeração
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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Using “congestão”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is C-O-N-G-E-S-T-Ã-O - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.