direção
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#954
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
5
similar word pairs
direção is aPortuguesenoun. It means: ato ou efeito de dirigir veículo automotor Pronounced /di.ɾɛ.ˈsɐ̃w̃/. It ranks #954 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with direto and direct.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | direção |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /di.ɾɛ.ˈsɐ̃w̃/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #954 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for direção is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /di.ɾɛ.ˈsɐ̃w̃/. Corpus data places it at rank #954 in overall Portuguese word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for direção, with forms such as "ddireção", "dierção", and "direãço". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "direto", "direct", "direito", and more, 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 direção, spelled D-I-R-E-Ç-Ã-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1ato ou efeito de dirigir veículo automotor
- 2cargo de diretor
- 3lado para onde se caminha ou se está voltado; orientação; critério; rumo
- 4dispositivo destinado ao comando de veículo automotor
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ddireção,dierção,direãço,direçoã,dirreção,dirçeão,drieção,idreção
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "direção"
Frequency rank: #954 in Portuguese
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Nearby Portuguese words
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