dotação

noun

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The verdict

“dotação” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #53,277 among 1,193 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#53,277
frequency rank, Portuguese
1,193
“D” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - ato de dotar

Corpus desk

Index PT-dotacao · dotação · Portuguese

dotação · rank #53,277 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #53,277
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 1,193
  • PHOTO-FINISH dye

Nearest frequency peer: dye (+4 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.

Ranks da cauda longa perto de “dotação”

Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto

corpus weight

What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “dotação” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for dotação
PropertyValue
Headworddotação
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
Letters7
Frequency rank#53,277
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Cauda longa: rank de “dotação” em português

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

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

Os ticks avançam em logaritmo; cada um é da ordem de dez vezes mais raro. Vizinhos raros da mesma faixa: “dye” (#53,281), “elegantemente” (#53,286), “desqualificação” (#53,266). Entre 1,193 lemas com “D”, “dotação” fica em #53,277. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

dotação is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #53,277 among 1,193 “D” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "ato de dotar".

No misspelling variants are generated for dotação in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 dotação, spelled D-O-T-A-Ç-Ã-O.

Definition

  1. 1
    ato de dotar

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. «O Governo aprovou uma dotação orçamental extra para reforçar o Serviço Nacional de Saúde.»

This word in other languages

endowment(English)dotación(Español)dotation(Français)

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 "dotação"?
"dotação" is spelled D-O-T-A-Ç-Ã-O.
What does "dotação" mean?
As a noun, "dotação" means: ato de dotar
What language does "dotação" come from?
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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

compota#53,221grávido#53,344himself#53,352bocaina#53,174

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list