designação

/dɨ.zi.ɡnɐ.ˈsɐ̃w̃/

//dɨ.zi.ɡnɐ.ˈsɐ̃w̃// noun

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The verdict

“designação” has 13 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #12,037. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#12,037
frequency rank, Portuguese
1,193
“D” headwords
13
tracked misspellings

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - nome

Corpus desk

Index PT-designacao · designação · Portuguese

designação · rank #12,037 · 13 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #12,037
  • LEN-MEGA 10 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 13 variants
  • BOOK-MID 1,193
  • PHOTO-FINISH die

Nearest frequency peer: die (+1 rank slots)

Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.

Pares de rank junto ao íman ortográfico “designação”

Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho

corpus weight

What this shows “designação” está entre estes pares FrequencyWords; a profundidade de typo mede-se à parte no gráfico de distância de edição.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for designação
PropertyValue
Headworddesignação
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
IPA/dɨ.zi.ɡnɐ.ˈsɐ̃w̃/
Letters10
Frequency rank#12,037
Misspellings tracked13
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequência do íman ortográfico “designação”

A frequência vai do punhado de palavras do dia a dia (esquerda) à cauda longa quase nunca usada (direita).designaçãocai aqui:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

A escala é logarítmica (cada marca ≈ 10× mais rara). Na mesma faixa de raridade aparecem “die” (#12,038), “descarga” (#12,034), “dobrar” (#12,043). Entre 1,193 lemas com “D”, “designação” fica em #12,037. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 13 spelling variants around designação (IPA /dɨ.zi.ɡnɐ.ˈsɐ̃w̃/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #12,037 among 1,193 “D” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for designação, with forms such as "ddesignação", "deisgnação", and "desginação". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Portuguese form is designação, spelled D-E-S-I-G-N-A-Ç-Ã-O.

Definition

  1. 1
    nome
  2. 2
    indicação

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how designação appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. a designação oficial do Brasil é República Federativa do Brasil
  2. a designação do poeta popular para a Academia causou furor entre os meios literários

Synonyms

definiçãoeleiçãoescolhafixação

This word in other languages

designation(English)designación(Español)désignation(Français)Benennung(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ddesignação
  • deisgnação
  • desginação
  • desiganção
  • desiggnação
  • designaãço
  • designaçoã
  • designnação
  • designçaão
  • desingação
  • dessignação
  • dseignação
  • edsignação

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of designação - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

ddesignação1deisgnação2desginação2desiganção2desiggnação1designaãço2designaçoã2designnação1
Edit distance from "designação"

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Portuguese corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "designação"?
"designação" is spelled D-E-S-I-G-N-A-Ç-Ã-O. The IPA pronunciation is /dɨ.zi.ɡnɐ.ˈsɐ̃w̃/.
What does "designação" mean?
As a noun, "designação" means: nome
What are common misspellings of "designação"?
Common misspellings include "ddesignação", "deisgnação", "desginação", "desiganção", "desiggnação". The correct spelling is "designação".
How do you pronounce "designação"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "designação" is /dɨ.zi.ɡnɐ.ˈsɐ̃w̃/. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "designação" come from?
"designação" is a Portuguese word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "designação", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

intermédio#12,089traficante#11,974solicitado#11,973reproduzir#11,956

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).

crueldade13 variantsgerenciar13 variantsindicador13 variantsamplitude13 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list