formação
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#958
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
7
similar word pairs
formação is aPortuguesenoun. It means: ato, efeito ou modo de formar Pronounced /fuɾ.mɐ.ˈsɐ̃w̃/. It ranks #958 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with fração and formato.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | formação |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /fuɾ.mɐ.ˈsɐ̃w̃/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #958 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for formação is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /fuɾ.mɐ.ˈsɐ̃w̃/. Corpus data places it at rank #958 in overall Portuguese word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for formação, with forms such as "fformação", "fomração", and "foramção". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 7 confusable-pair relationships, "fração", "formato", "formado", 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 formação, spelled F-O-R-M-A-Ç-Ã-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1ato, efeito ou modo de formar
- 2constituição
- 3formatura (de tropas)
- 4organização
- 5desenvolvimento
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: fformação,fomração,foramção,formaãço,formaçoã,formmação,formçaão,forrmação,fromação,ofrmação
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for formação
Misspelling Variants of "formação"
Frequency rank: #958 in Portuguese
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Nearby Portuguese words
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