descrição
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,369
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
12
tracked variants
Confusables
2
similar word pairs
descrição is aPortuguesenoun. It means: o ato ou método de descrever Pronounced /dɨʃ.kɾi.ˈsɐ̃w̃/. It ranks #2,369 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with deserção and destruição.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | descrição |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /dɨʃ.kɾi.ˈsɐ̃w̃/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #2,369 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for descrição is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /dɨʃ.kɾi.ˈsɐ̃w̃/. Corpus data places it at rank #2,369 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for descrição, with forms such as "ddescrição", "decsrição", and "desccrição". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "deserção", "destruição", 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 descrição, spelled D-E-S-C-R-I-Ç-Ã-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1o ato ou método de descrever
- 2enumeração de parâmetros quantitativos e qualitativos que fornece uma definição de alguma coisa
- 3uma das três formas de composição literária (as outras duas sendo narração e dissertação)
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ddescrição,decsrição,desccrição,descirção,descriãço,descriçoã,descrrição,descrçião,desrcição,desscrição,dsecrição,edscrição
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for descrição
Misspelling Variants of "descrição"
Frequency rank: #2,369 in Portuguese
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Nearby Portuguese words
Other entries that begin with the letter D in our Portuguese index: