geração
/ʒɨ.ɾɐ.ˈsɐ̃w̃/
The verdict
“geração” has 8 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #1,194. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,194
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 521
- “G” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - ato de gerar
Corpus desk
Index PT-geracao · geração · Portuguese
geração · rank #1,194 · 8 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,194
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 521
- PHOTO-FINISH festival
Nearest frequency peer: festival (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Pares de rank junto ao íman ortográfico “geração”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- espírito
espírito
98,810 corpus weight
- estrada
estrada
98,809 corpus weight
- festival
festival
98,808 corpus weight
- geração
geração
98,807 corpus weight
- imprensa
imprensa
98,805 corpus weight
- marido
marido
98,804 corpus weight
What this shows “geração” está entre estes pares FrequencyWords; a profundidade de typo mede-se à parte no gráfico de distância de edição.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | geração |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ʒɨ.ɾɐ.ˈsɐ̃w̃/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #1,194 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “geração”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around geração (IPA /ʒɨ.ɾɐ.ˈsɐ̃w̃/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #1,194 among 521 “G” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for geração, with forms such as "egração", "gearção", and "geraãço". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "graça", "graças", "gerado", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is geração, spelled G-E-R-A-Ç-Ã-O.
Definition
- 1ato de gerar
- 2grau de filiação ou descendência
- 3linhagem, ascendência, genealogia
- 4conjunto de indivíduos nascidos numa mesma época
- 5duração média de vida do homem
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how geração appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Nos últimos anos a geração de eletricidade em usinas eólicas vem aumentando no Brasil
A geração transviada dos anos 60 tinha o sonho de modificar o mundo.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- egração
- gearção
- geraãço
- geraçoã
- gerração
- gerçaão
- ggeração
- greação
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of geração - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "geração", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).