devolução
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#15,785
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
2
similar word pairs
devolução is aPortuguesenoun. It means: o ato ou efeito de devolver Often confused with devoção and desolação.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | devolução |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #15,785 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for devolução is 9 letters long, classified as anoun. Corpus data places it at rank #15,785 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for devolução, with forms such as "ddevolução", "deovlução", and "devloução". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "devoção", "desolação", 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 devolução, spelled D-E-V-O-L-U-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 efeito de devolver
- 2concessão estatutária de poderes do governo central de um Estado ao governo a nível nacional, regional, ou local
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ddevolução,deovlução,devloução,devollução,devoluãço,devoluçoã,devolçuão,devoulção,devvolução,dveolução,edvolução
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "devolução"
Frequency rank: #15,785 in Portuguese
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