fazer de conta
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)
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fazer de conta |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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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
- 1entrar no mundo da fantasia e acreditar no imaginário (regência verbal com preposição: que)
- 2agir de modo que mostra certo comportamento visando passar uma certa impressão (regência verbal com preposição: que)
- 3agir 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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