estado
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#134
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
estado is aPortuguesenoun. It means: circunstância em que se está, situação It ranks #134 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with esto and estar.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | estado |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #134 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for estado is 6 letters long, classified as anoun. Corpus data places it at rank #134 in overall Portuguese word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for estado, with forms such as "esatdo", "esstado", and "estaddo". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "esto", "estar", "estilo", 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 estado, spelled E-S-T-A-D-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1circunstância em que se está, situação
- 2forma com a qual a matéria está agragada
- 3conjunto dos valores das grandezas de um sistema, capazes de caracterizar a situação física deste sistema
- 4nação, país
- 5subdivisão político-administrativa de um país (geralmente com inicial maiúscula)
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: esatdo,esstado,estaddo,estaod,estdao,esttado,etsado,setado
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for estado
Misspelling Variants of "estado"
Frequency rank: #134 in Portuguese
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Nearby Portuguese words
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