disease

//dɪˈziz/, SAMPA: /dI"ziz// noun

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#34,240

in Portuguese word usage

Misspellings

9

tracked variants

Confusables

1

similar word pairs

disease is aPortuguesenoun. It means: doença, moléstia Pronounced /dɪˈziz/, SAMPA: /dI"ziz/. Often confused with disse.

Key facts for disease
PropertyValue
Headworddisease
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
IPA/dɪˈziz/, SAMPA: /dI"ziz/
Letters7
Frequency rank#34,240
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs1
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of disease in Portuguese word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for disease is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /dɪˈziz/, SAMPA: /dI"ziz/. Corpus data places it at rank #34,240 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "doença, moléstia".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for disease, with forms such as "ddisease", "diesase", and "disaese". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "disse", 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 disease, spelled D-I-S-E-A-S-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    doença, moléstia

Synonyms

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: ddisease,diesase,disaese,diseaes,diseasse,disesae,dissease,dsiease,idsease

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for disease

Misspelling Variants of "disease"

ddisease8diesase7disaese7diseaes7diseasse8disesae7dissease8dsiease7
Misspelling Variants of "disease"

Frequency rank: #34,240 in Portuguese

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "disease"?
"disease" is spelled D-I-S-E-A-S-E. The IPA pronunciation is /dɪˈziz/, SAMPA: /dI"ziz/.
What does "disease" mean?
As a noun, "disease" means: doença, moléstia
What words are commonly confused with "disease"?
"disease" is commonly confused with "disse". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "disease"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "disease" is /dɪˈziz/, SAMPA: /dI"ziz/. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "disease" come from?
"disease" is a Portuguese word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Nearby Portuguese words

Other entries that begin with the letter D in our Portuguese index:

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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.