fazer de conta

phrase

Letters

14 characters

Language

Portuguese

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

fazer de conta is aPortuguesephrase. It means: entrar no mundo da fantasia e acreditar no imaginário (regência verbal com preposição: que)

Key facts for fazer de conta
PropertyValue
Headwordfazer de conta
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechPhrase
Letters14
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

fazer de conta is not present in the top-100,000 ranked Portuguese corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for fazer de conta is 14 letters long, classified as aphrase. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for fazer de conta in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Portuguese patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 fazer de conta, spelled F-A-Z-E-R- -D-E- -C-O-N-T-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    entrar no mundo da fantasia e acreditar no imaginário (regência verbal com preposição: que)
  2. 2
    agir de modo que mostra certo comportamento visando passar uma certa impressão (regência verbal com preposição: que)
  3. 3
    agir de modo que ignora ou não mostra ação ou reação a algo como se fosse-lhe concernente a dissimular para passar certa impressão (regência verbal com preposição: que)

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "fazer de conta"?
"fazer de conta" is spelled F-A-Z-E-R- -D-E- -C-O-N-T-A.
What does "fazer de conta" mean?
As a phrase, "fazer de conta" means: entrar no mundo da fantasia e acreditar no imaginário (regência verbal com preposição: que)
What language does "fazer de conta" come from?
"fazer de conta" is a Portuguese word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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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.