função
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,146
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
13
similar word pairs
função is aPortuguesenoun. It means: ação própria de uma máquina ou organismo Pronounced /fũ.ˈsɐ̃w̃/. It ranks #1,146 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with fundo and fusão.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | função |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /fũ.ˈsɐ̃w̃/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #1,146 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 13 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for função is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /fũ.ˈsɐ̃w̃/. Corpus data places it at rank #1,146 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for função, with forms such as "ffunção", "fnução", and "funnção". 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 13 confusable-pair relationships, "fundo", "fusão", "funda", 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 função, spelled F-U-N-Ç-Ã-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1ação própria de uma máquina ou organismo
- 2relacionamento entre dois conjuntos que leva de um a outro (usualmente indicada como f(x))
- 3relação de x para y em que todo x é correspondido por um único y
- 4cargo, posto ocupado
- 5utilidade de algo
- 6solenidade
- 7festa
- 8funçanata
- 9jantar da festa do Espírito Santo
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ffunção,fnução,funnção,funãço,funçoã,fuçnão,ufnção
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "função"
Frequency rank: #1,146 in Portuguese
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Nearby Portuguese words
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