deontologia

//djõ.tu.lu.ˈʒi.ɐ// noun

Letters

11 characters

Frequency Rank

#56,044

in Portuguese word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

deontologia is aPortuguesenoun. It means: teoria moral criada pelo filósofo e jurisconsulto inglês Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832) que, rejeitando a importância de qualquer apelo ao dever e à consciência, compreende na tendência humana de perse... Pronounced /djõ.tu.lu.ˈʒi.ɐ/.

Key facts for deontologia
PropertyValue
Headworddeontologia
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
IPA/djõ.tu.lu.ˈʒi.ɐ/
Letters11
Frequency rank#56,044
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for deontologia is 11 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /djõ.tu.lu.ˈʒi.ɐ/. Corpus data places it at rank #56,044 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No misspelling variants are generated for deontologia 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 deontologia, spelled D-E-O-N-T-O-L-O-G-I-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    teoria moral criada pelo filósofo e jurisconsulto inglês Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832) que, rejeitando a importância de qualquer apelo ao dever e à consciência, compreende na tendência humana de perseguir o prazer e fugir da dor o fundamento da ação eticamente correta; deontologismo
  2. 2
    conjunto de deveres profissionais do médico estabelecidos em um código específico
  3. 3
    conjunto de deveres profissionais de qualquer categoria profissional minuciados em códigos específicos

Frequency rank: #56,044 in Portuguese

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "deontologia"?
"deontologia" is spelled D-E-O-N-T-O-L-O-G-I-A. The IPA pronunciation is /djõ.tu.lu.ˈʒi.ɐ/.
What does "deontologia" mean?
As a noun, "deontologia" means: teoria moral criada pelo filósofo e jurisconsulto inglês Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832) que, rejeitando a importância de qualquer apelo ao dever e à consciência, compreende na tendência humana de perse...
How do you pronounce "deontologia"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "deontologia" is /djõ.tu.lu.ˈʒi.ɐ/. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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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.