expropriação
The verdict
“expropriação” is a moderately-common Portuguese word, ranked #34,274 in Portuguese word frequency and used as a noun.
- #34,274
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 12
- letters
- 16
- tracked misspellings
Dominant Wiktionary sense: esbulho; apropriação ilegal e definitiva de bens ou propriedades que não lhe pertencem
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | expropriação |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ɐjʃ.pɾu.pɾjɐ.ˈsɐ̃w̃/ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #34,274 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “expropriação” sits in Portuguese frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for expropriação is 12 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ɐjʃ.pɾu.pɾjɐ.ˈsɐ̃w̃/. Corpus data places it at rank #34,274 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for expropriação, with forms such as "epxropriação", "exporpriação", and "exppropriação". 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 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 expropriação, spelled E-X-P-R-O-P-R-I-A-Ç-Ã-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1esbulho; apropriação ilegal e definitiva de bens ou propriedades que não lhe pertencem
- 2privação do que pertence ao proprietário
- 3aquilo que foi retirado de seu proprietário
- 4ação ou efeito de expropriar, de excluir alguém da posse de uma propriedade, através de meios judiciais
Synonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: epxropriação,exporpriação,exppropriação,expropiração,exproppriação,expropraição,expropriaãço,expropriaçoã,expropriçaão,exproprriação,exprorpiação,exprporiação,exprropriação,exrpopriação,exxpropriação,xepropriação
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of expropriação — measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
Edit distance from "expropriação"
Frequency rank: #34,274 in Portuguese
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Using “expropriação”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is E-X-P-R-O-P-R-I-A-Ç-Ã-O — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ɐjʃ.pɾu.pɾjɐ.ˈsɐ̃w̃/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more Portuguese words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Portuguese words
Nearby Portuguese words
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