Goiás
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#3,907
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
12
similar word pairs
Goiás is aPortuguesenoun. It means: estado brasileiro localizado ao leste da Região Centro-Oeste; tem como limites os estados de Tocantins ao norte, da Bahia ao leste, de Minas Gerais ao sudeste, de Mato Grosso do Sul a sudeste e o d... Pronounced /ɡojˈa(j)s/ [ɡoɪ̯ˈa(ɪ̯)s]. It ranks #3,907 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with guia and gota.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Goiás |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ɡojˈa(j)s/ [ɡoɪ̯ˈa(ɪ̯)s] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #3,907 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for Goiás is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ɡojˈa(j)s/ [ɡoɪ̯ˈa(ɪ̯)s]. Corpus data places it at rank #3,907 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 Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for Goiás, with forms such as "ggoiás", "gioás", and "goisá". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 12 confusable-pair relationships, "guia", "gota", "goma", 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 Goiás, spelled G-O-I-Á-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1estado brasileiro localizado ao leste da Região Centro-Oeste; tem como limites os estados de Tocantins ao norte, da Bahia ao leste, de Minas Gerais ao sudeste, de Mato Grosso do Sul a sudeste e o de Mato Grosso a noroeste; sua capital é Goiânia; desmembrado a província de São Paulo ainda no período colonial, de seu território emancipou-se por último o estado do Tocantins
- 2município brasileiro do estado de Goiás, foi emancipada em 1732 com o nome de Vila Boa de Goyaz, e antiga capital do estado (desde a província em 1748 até a construção de Goiânia, na década de 1930), coloquialmente denominada Goiás Velho e sendo conhecida por seu casario colonial, pela Procissão do Fogaréu ou por ser a terra natal da poetisa Cora Coralina
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ggoiás,gioás,goisá,goiáss,goáis,ogiás
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Goiás
Misspelling Variants of "Goiás"
Frequency rank: #3,907 in Portuguese
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Nearby Portuguese words
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