dotação

noun

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The verdict

“dotação” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #53,277 among 2,399 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#53,277
frequency rank, Portuguese
2,399
“D” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - ato de dotar

Key facts for dotação
PropertyValue
Headworddotação
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
Letters7
Frequency rank#53,277
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “dotação” sits in Portuguese frequency

Every-word frequency runs from the handful of words we use constantly (left) to the long tail used once in a blue moon (right). dotação lands here:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
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Scale is logarithmic (each tick is 10× rarer). Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

dotação is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #53,277 among 2,399 “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

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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Using “dotação”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct Portuguese spelling is D-O-T-A-Ç-Ã-O - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Browse more Portuguese words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Portuguese words

Other uncommon Portuguese words near this rank

Data Source

Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list