depressa

//dɨ.ˈpɾɛ.sɐ// adv

Letters

8 characters

Frequency Rank

#9,173

in Portuguese word usage

Misspellings

10

tracked variants

Confusables

1

similar word pairs

depressa is anPortugueseadv. It means: com rapidez, demorando pouco: Pronounced /dɨ.ˈpɾɛ.sɐ/. It ranks #9,173 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with depressão.

Key facts for depressa
PropertyValue
Headworddepressa
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechAdv
IPA/dɨ.ˈpɾɛ.sɐ/
Letters8
Frequency rank#9,173
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs1
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for depressa is 8 letters long, classified as anadv, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /dɨ.ˈpɾɛ.sɐ/. Corpus data places it at rank #9,173 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "com rapidez, demorando pouco:".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for depressa, with forms such as "ddepressa", "deperssa", and "deppressa". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "depressão", 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 depressa, spelled D-E-P-R-E-S-S-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    com rapidez, demorando pouco:

Synonyms

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: ddepressa,deperssa,deppressa,depresa,depresas,deprressa,deprsesa,derpessa,dperessa,edpressa

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for depressa

Misspelling Variants of "depressa"

ddepressa9deperssa8deppressa9depresa7depresas8deprressa9deprsesa8derpessa8
Misspelling Variants of "depressa"

Frequency rank: #9,173 in Portuguese

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "depressa"?
"depressa" is spelled D-E-P-R-E-S-S-A. The IPA pronunciation is /dɨ.ˈpɾɛ.sɐ/.
What does "depressa" mean?
As an adv, "depressa" means: com rapidez, demorando pouco:
What words are commonly confused with "depressa"?
"depressa" is commonly confused with "depressão". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "depressa"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "depressa" is /dɨ.ˈpɾɛ.sɐ/. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "depressa" come from?
"depressa" is a Portuguese word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Other entries that begin with the letter D in our Portuguese index:

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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.