cultura

//kuɫ.ˈtu.ɾɐ// noun

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#490

in Portuguese word usage

Misspellings

10

tracked variants

Confusables

4

similar word pairs

cultura is aPortuguesenoun. It means: conjunto de conhecimento adquirido; a instrução, o saber: uma sólida cultura Pronounced /kuɫ.ˈtu.ɾɐ/. It ranks #490 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with cultural and captura.

Key facts for cultura
PropertyValue
Headwordcultura
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
IPA/kuɫ.ˈtu.ɾɐ/
Letters7
Frequency rank#490
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs4
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of cultura in Portuguese word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for cultura is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /kuɫ.ˈtu.ɾɐ/. Corpus data places it at rank #490 in overall Portuguese word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for cultura, with forms such as "ccultura", "clutura", and "culltura". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "cultural", "captura", "costura", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

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 cultura, spelled C-U-L-T-U-R-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    conjunto de conhecimento adquirido; a instrução, o saber: uma sólida cultura
  2. 2
    conjunto das estruturas sociais, religiosas, etc., das manifestações intelectuais, artísticas etc., que caracteriza uma sociedade: a cultura inca; a cultura helenística
  3. 3
    conjunto de tradições, técnicas e conhecimentos de um povo
  4. 4
    ação ou maneira de cultivar a terra ou as plantas; cultivo: a cultura das flores
  5. 5
    desenvolvimento de certas espécies microbianas: caldo de cultura
  6. 6
    terreno cultivado: a extensão das culturas
  7. 7
    categoria de vegetais cultivados: culturas forrageiras
  8. 8
    arte de utilizar certas produções naturais: a cultura do algodão
  9. 9
    criação de certos animais: a cultura de abelhas

Antonyms

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: ccultura,clutura,culltura,cultrua,culttura,cultuar,culturra,culutra,cutlura,ucltura

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for cultura

Misspelling Variants of "cultura"

ccultura8clutura7culltura8cultrua7culttura8cultuar7culturra8culutra7
Misspelling Variants of "cultura"

Frequency rank: #490 in Portuguese

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "cultura"?
"cultura" is spelled C-U-L-T-U-R-A. The IPA pronunciation is /kuɫ.ˈtu.ɾɐ/.
What does "cultura" mean?
As a noun, "cultura" means: conjunto de conhecimento adquirido; a instrução, o saber: uma sólida cultura
What words are commonly confused with "cultura"?
"cultura" is commonly confused with "cultural", "captura", "costura". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "cultura"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "cultura" is /kuɫ.ˈtu.ɾɐ/. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "cultura" come from?
"cultura" is a Portuguese word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.