extensão
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,422
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
4
similar word pairs
extensão is aPortuguesenoun. It means: ato ou efeito de estender-se Pronounced /es.tẽj.ˈsãw/. It ranks #2,422 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with extenso and extinção.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | extensão |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /es.tẽj.ˈsãw/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #2,422 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for extensão is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /es.tẽj.ˈsãw/. Corpus data places it at rank #2,422 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for extensão, with forms such as "etxensão", "exetnsão", and "extennsão". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "extenso", "extinção", "expansão", 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 extensão, spelled E-X-T-E-N-S-Ã-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1ato ou efeito de estender-se
- 2dimensão
- 3conjunto de letras apostas ao nome de um ficheiro informático para o identificar
- 4porção de cabo ou fio elétrico, munido ou não de fichas adaptadoras, normalmente destinado a interligar dois ou mais sistemas elétricos distantes entre si
- 5prolongação de um cabo utilizado para conectar dois ou mais aparelhos telefônicos numa mesma linha
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: etxensão,exetnsão,extennsão,extensoã,extenssão,extenãso,extesnão,extnesão,exttensão,exxtensão,xetensão
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for extensão
Misspelling Variants of "extensão"
Frequency rank: #2,422 in Portuguese
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