fação
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#81,260
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
fação is aPortuguesenoun. It means: expedição militar ou feito de armas heroico Pronounced /fa.ˈsɐ̃w̃/.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fação |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /fa.ˈsɐ̃w̃/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #81,260 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for fação is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /fa.ˈsɐ̃w̃/. Corpus data places it at rank #81,260 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for fação in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Portuguese patterns.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 fação, spelled F-A-Ç-Ã-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1expedição militar ou feito de armas heroico
- 2grupo de indivíduos partidários de uma mesma causa em oposição à de outros grupos; na modernidade, o termo passou a designar cada grupo antagónico que disputa a supremacia política
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Frequency rank: #81,260 in Portuguese
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