graduação
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#3,478
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
1
similar word pairs
graduação is aPortuguesenoun. It means: curso feito em uma faculdade ou universidade, a nível de terceiro grau; em geral dura de 4 a 5 anos Pronounced /ɡɾɐ.dwɐ.ˈsɐ̃w̃/. It ranks #3,478 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with gravação.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | graduação |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ɡɾɐ.dwɐ.ˈsɐ̃w̃/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #3,478 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for graduação is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ɡɾɐ.dwɐ.ˈsɐ̃w̃/. Corpus data places it at rank #3,478 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for graduação, with forms such as "garduação", "ggraduação", and "gradaução". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "gravação", 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 graduação, spelled G-R-A-D-U-A-Ç-Ã-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1curso feito em uma faculdade ou universidade, a nível de terceiro grau; em geral dura de 4 a 5 anos
- 2designação dada aos graus da hierarquia militar
- 3divisão de uma escala em graus
- 4posto honorífico
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: garduação,ggraduação,gradaução,gradduação,graduaãço,graduaçoã,graduçaão,graudação,grdauação,grraduação,rgaduação
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for graduação
Misspelling Variants of "graduação"
Frequency rank: #3,478 in Portuguese
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Nearby Portuguese words
Other entries that begin with the letter G in our Portuguese index: