eloquência

//i.lu.ˈkwẽ.sjɐ// noun

Letters

10 characters

Frequency Rank

#50,473

in Portuguese word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

eloquência is aPortuguesenoun. It means: capacidade de falar e exprimir-se com facilidade; oratória Pronounced /i.lu.ˈkwẽ.sjɐ/.

Key facts for eloquência
PropertyValue
Headwordeloquência
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
IPA/i.lu.ˈkwẽ.sjɐ/
Letters10
Frequency rank#50,473
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for eloquência is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /i.lu.ˈkwẽ.sjɐ/. Corpus data places it at rank #50,473 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for eloquência in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Portuguese patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

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 eloquência, spelled E-L-O-Q-U-Ê-N-C-I-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    capacidade de falar e exprimir-se com facilidade; oratória
  2. 2
    capacidade de persuadir através da palavra
  3. 3
    arte do bem falar; retórica, facúndia
  4. 4
    expressividade
  5. 5
    virtude de comunicação

Synonyms

This word in other languages

Frequency rank: #50,473 in Portuguese

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "eloquência"?
"eloquência" is spelled E-L-O-Q-U-Ê-N-C-I-A. The IPA pronunciation is /i.lu.ˈkwẽ.sjɐ/.
What does "eloquência" mean?
As a noun, "eloquência" means: capacidade de falar e exprimir-se com facilidade; oratória
How do you pronounce "eloquência"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "eloquência" is /i.lu.ˈkwẽ.sjɐ/. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "eloquência" come from?
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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.