dicção
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#36,849
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
3
similar word pairs
dicção is aPortuguesenoun. It means: estilo de falar ou de escrever dependente da escolha das palavras Often confused with disco and doação.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dicção |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #36,849 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for dicção is 6 letters long, classified as anoun. Corpus data places it at rank #36,849 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 Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for dicção, with forms such as "dcição", "ddicção", and "diccção". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "disco", "doação", "direção", 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 dicção, spelled D-I-C-Ç-Ã-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1estilo de falar ou de escrever dependente da escolha das palavras
- 2o conjunto de sotaque, inflexão, intonação e qualidade geral do som de um falante individual, geralmente julgados em relação aos padrões normais
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: dcição,ddicção,diccção,dicãço,dicçoã,diçcão,idcção
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for dicção
Misspelling Variants of "dicção"
Frequency rank: #36,849 in Portuguese
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Nearby Portuguese words
Other entries that begin with the letter D in our Portuguese index: