excelência
Letters
10 characters
Frequency Rank
#4,476
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
14
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
excelência is aPortuguesenoun. It means: característica do que é excelente, que é excepcional Pronounced /e.seˈlẽ.si.ɐ/ [e.seˈlẽ.sɪ.ɐ] AFI: /e.seˈlẽ.sjɐ/ (pronúncia coloquial). It ranks #4,476 in Portuguese word frequency.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | excelência |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /e.seˈlẽ.si.ɐ/ [e.seˈlẽ.sɪ.ɐ] AFI: /e.seˈlẽ.sjɐ/ (pronúncia coloquial) |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #4,476 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for excelência is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /e.seˈlẽ.si.ɐ/ [e.seˈlẽ.sɪ.ɐ] AFI: /e.seˈlẽ.sjɐ/ (pronúncia coloquial). Corpus data places it at rank #4,476 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 14 documented wrong-spelling variants for excelência, with forms such as "ecxelência", "exccelência", and "excellência". 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 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 excelência, spelled E-X-C-E-L-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
- 1característica do que é excelente, que é excepcional
- 2que tem grau elevado em bondade, qualidade ou perfeição
- 3tratamento dado a pessoas de alto grau hierárquico na sociedade (nobre, político, diplomático, eclesiástico, etc.); forma respeitosa de tratar senhoras
- 4canto entoado durante velórios (ou junto a um moribundo), via de regra por mulheres; cantoria fúnebre em uníssono e sem acompanhamento instrumental, nalguns lugares composto por doze versos ritualmente cantados aos pés do morto enquanto os benditos são entoados à cabeça deste
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ecxelência,exccelência,excellência,excelnêcia,excelêcnia,excelêncai,excelênccia,excelênica,excelênncia,exceêlncia,excleência,execlência,exxcelência,xecelência
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for excelência
Misspelling Variants of "excelência"
Frequency rank: #4,476 in Portuguese
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