fonologia
/fu.nu.lu.ˈʒi.ɐ/
The verdict
“fonologia” is an uncommon Portuguese word, ranked #76,363 in Portuguese word frequency and used as a noun.
- #76,363
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - estudo dos sons elementares e fundamentais das línguas, das modificações desses sons representados por vocábulos, e da correta pronúncia destes
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fonologia |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /fu.nu.lu.ˈʒi.ɐ/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #76,363 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “fonologia” sits in Portuguese frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for fonologia is 9 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /fu.nu.lu.ˈʒi.ɐ/. Corpus data places it at rank #76,363 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "estudo dos sons elementares e fundamentais das línguas, das modificações desses sons representados por vocábulos, e da correta pronúncia destes".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for fonologia, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Portuguese rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Portuguese form is fonologia, spelled F-O-N-O-L-O-G-I-A.
Definition
- 1estudo dos sons elementares e fundamentais das línguas, das modificações desses sons representados por vocábulos, e da correta pronúncia destes
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Portuguese corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “fonologia”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is F-O-N-O-L-O-G-I-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /fu.nu.lu.ˈʒi.ɐ/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.