fracasso
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#5,100
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
2
similar word pairs
fracasso is aPortuguesenoun. It means: som estrepitoso provocado pela queda ou destroçamento de algo; barulho; estrondo Pronounced /fɾɐ.ˈka.su/. It ranks #5,100 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with fração and fracassar.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fracasso |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /fɾɐ.ˈka.su/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #5,100 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for fracasso is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /fɾɐ.ˈka.su/. Corpus data places it at rank #5,100 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 2 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 fracasso, with forms such as "farcasso", "ffracasso", and "fraacsso". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "fração", "fracassar", 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 fracasso, spelled F-R-A-C-A-S-S-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1som estrepitoso provocado pela queda ou destroçamento de algo; barulho; estrondo
- 2falta de êxito; derrota, falha, malogro
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: farcasso,ffracasso,fraacsso,fracaso,fracasos,fraccasso,fracsaso,frcaasso,frracasso,rfacasso
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "fracasso"
Frequency rank: #5,100 in Portuguese
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