constrição
The verdict
“constrição” is an uncommon Portuguese word, ranked #57,221 in Portuguese word frequency and used as a noun.
- #57,221
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 10
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: ato ou efeito de constringir
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | constrição |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #57,221 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “constrição” sits in Portuguese frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for constrição is 10 letters long, classified as a noun. Corpus data places it at rank #57,221 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for constrição in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Portuguese patterns. 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 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 constrição, spelled C-O-N-S-T-R-I-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 constringir
- 2pressão em volta de um corpo com diminuição do respectivo diâmetro; compressão circular, aperto:
- 3estenose, estrangulamento
- 4ansiedade, medo:
- 5cerco, rodeio:
Frequency rank: #57,221 in Portuguese
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Using “constrição”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is C-O-N-S-T-R-I-Ç-Ã-O — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Nearby Portuguese words
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