época

noun

Letters

5 characters

Frequency Rank

#681

in Portuguese word usage

Misspellings

6

tracked variants

Confusables

7

similar word pairs

época is aPortuguesenoun. It means: em geral, determinado momento do tempo It ranks #681 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with ética and Érica.

Key facts for época
PropertyValue
Headwordépoca
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
Letters5
Frequency rank#681
Misspellings tracked6
Confusable pairs7
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for época is 5 letters long, classified as anoun. Corpus data places it at rank #681 in overall Portuguese word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for época, with forms such as "péoca", "éopca", and "épcoa". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "ética", "Érica", "evocar", 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 época, spelled É-P-O-C-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    em geral, determinado momento do tempo
  2. 2
    momento da história marcado por um acontecimento importante
  3. 3
    era; período; temporada; quadra; estação

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: péoca,éopca,épcoa,époac,épocca,éppoca

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for época

Misspelling Variants of "época"

péoca5éopca5épcoa5époac5épocca6éppoca6
Misspelling Variants of "época"

Frequency rank: #681 in Portuguese

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "época"?
"época" is spelled É-P-O-C-A.
What does "época" mean?
As a noun, "época" means: em geral, determinado momento do tempo
What words are commonly confused with "época"?
"época" is commonly confused with "ética", "Érica", "evocar". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "época" come from?
"época" 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 É in our Portuguese index:

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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.