contingência
The verdict
“contingência” is a moderately-common Portuguese word, ranked #25,255 in Portuguese word frequency and used as a noun.
- #25,255
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 12
- letters
- 18
- tracked misspellings
Dominant Wiktionary sense: que pode ser ou não ser; que pode ocorrer ou não ocorrer
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | contingência |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /kõ.tĩ.ˈʒẽ.sjɐ/ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #25,255 |
| Misspellings tracked | 18 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “contingência” sits in Portuguese frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for contingência is 12 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /kõ.tĩ.ˈʒẽ.sjɐ/. Corpus data places it at rank #25,255 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 18 likely wrong-spelling variants for contingência, with forms such as "ccontingência", "cnotingência", and "conitngência". 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 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 contingência, spelled C-O-N-T-I-N-G-Ê-N-C-I-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1que pode ser ou não ser; que pode ocorrer ou não ocorrer
- 2acidente de percurso
- 3aquilo que é ou pode ser, mas não é necessário
- 4fórmula ou proposição cujo valor-verdade varia conforme a interpretação de seus termos, não sendo nem uma tautologia nem uma contradição
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccontingência,cnotingência,conitngência,conntingência,contignência,continggência,contingnêcia,contingêcnia,contingêncai,contingênccia,contingênica,contingênncia,continngência,continêgncia,contnigência,conttingência,cotningência,ocntingência
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of contingência — measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
Edit distance from "contingência"
Frequency rank: #25,255 in Portuguese
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Using “contingência”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is C-O-N-T-I-N-G-Ê-N-C-I-A — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /kõ.tĩ.ˈʒẽ.sjɐ/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more Portuguese words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Portuguese words
Nearby Portuguese words
Other entries that begin with the letter C in our Portuguese index: