contradição
The verdict
“contradição” has 15 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #12,206. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #12,206
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 3,948
- “C” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - estado de uma asserção contrária a outra
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | contradição |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #12,206 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “contradição” sits in Portuguese frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around contradição, anoun. Corpus frequency is #12,206 among 3,948 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for contradição, with forms such as "ccontradição", "cnotradição", and "conntradição". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "contratação", "contração", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Portuguese form is contradição, spelled C-O-N-T-R-A-D-I-Ç-Ã-O.
Definition
- 1estado de uma asserção contrária a outra
- 2situação na qual se encontra uma pessoa que diz algo contrário ao que havia dito anteriormente
- 3fórmula ou proposição que, seja qual for a interpretação de seus termos, é falsa
- 4estado de duas ou mais proposições ou fórmulas que não possam ser ambas verdadeiras nem ambas falsas dentro do mesmo sistema; situação do sistema que contenha proposições ou fórmulas neste estado
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccontradição
- cnotradição
- conntradição
- conrtadição
- contardição
- contraddição
- contradiãço
- contradiçoã
- contradçião
- contraidção
- contrdaição
- contrradição
- conttradição
- cotnradição
- ocntradição
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of contradição - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 “contradição”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is C-O-N-T-R-A-D-I-Ç-Ã-O - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Don't mix it up with “contratação” - see the side-by-side comparison. contradição vs contratação
- Browse more Portuguese words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Portuguese words
Same frequency band
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.