defesa
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#723
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
3
similar word pairs
defesa is aPortuguesenoun. It means: ato ou efeito de defender It ranks #723 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with dessa and densa.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | defesa |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #723 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for defesa is 6 letters long, classified as anoun. Corpus data places it at rank #723 in overall Portuguese word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for defesa, with forms such as "ddefesa", "deefsa", and "defeas". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "dessa", "densa", "despesa", 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 defesa, spelled D-E-F-E-S-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1ato ou efeito de defender
- 2barreira, resguardo, obstáculo
- 3conjunto de meios físicos e humanos que permitem evitar ou repelir um ataque
- 4contestação de uma acusação
- 5advogado ou equipa de advogados que defendem um réu
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ddefesa,deefsa,defeas,defessa,deffesa,defsea,dfeesa,edfesa
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for defesa
Misspelling Variants of "defesa"
Frequency rank: #723 in Portuguese
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Nearby Portuguese words
Other entries that begin with the letter D in our Portuguese index: