estado

noun

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.

Key facts for estado
PropertyValue
Headwordestado
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
Letters6
Frequency rank#134
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

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

  1. 1
    circunstância em que se está, situação
  2. 2
    forma com a qual a matéria está agragada
  3. 3
    conjunto dos valores das grandezas de um sistema, capazes de caracterizar a situação física deste sistema
  4. 4
    nação, país
  5. 5
    subdivisão 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"

esatdo6esstado7estaddo7estaod6estdao6esttado7etsado6setado6
Misspelling Variants of "estado"

Frequency rank: #134 in Portuguese

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "estado"?
"estado" is spelled E-S-T-A-D-O.
What does "estado" mean?
As a noun, "estado" means: circunstância em que se está, situação
What words are commonly confused with "estado"?
"estado" is commonly confused with "esto", "estar", "estilo". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "estado" come from?
"estado" 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 E in our Portuguese index:

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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.