esperança
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,210
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
12
tracked variants
Confusables
1
similar word pairs
esperança is aPortuguesenoun. It means: expectativa Pronounced /iʃ.pɨ.ˈɾɐ̃.sɐ/. It ranks #1,210 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with esperanto.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | esperança |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /iʃ.pɨ.ˈɾɐ̃.sɐ/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #1,210 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for esperança is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /iʃ.pɨ.ˈɾɐ̃.sɐ/. Corpus data places it at rank #1,210 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for esperança, with forms such as "epserança", "eseprança", and "espearnça". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "esperanto", 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 esperança, spelled E-S-P-E-R-A-N-Ç-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1expectativa
- 2crença emocional na possibilidade de resultados positivos relacionados com eventos e circunstâncias da vida pessoal
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: epserança,eseprança,espearnça,esperanaç,esperannça,esperaçna,espernaça,esperrança,espperança,espreança,essperança,seperança
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Relative frequency of common misspelling types for esperança
Misspelling Variants of "esperança"
Frequency rank: #1,210 in Portuguese
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