gravação

noun

Letters

8 characters

Frequency Rank

#3,404

in Portuguese word usage

Misspellings

10

tracked variants

Confusables

1

similar word pairs

gravação is aPortuguesenoun. It means: ato ou efeito de gravar It ranks #3,404 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with graduação.

Key facts for gravação
PropertyValue
Headwordgravação
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
Letters8
Frequency rank#3,404
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs1
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of gravação in Portuguese word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for gravação is 8 letters long, classified as anoun. Corpus data places it at rank #3,404 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for gravação, with forms such as "garvação", "ggravação", and "graavção". 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, "graduação", 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 gravação, spelled G-R-A-V-A-Ç-Ã-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    ato ou efeito de gravar
  2. 2
    o registro de dados, imagens, sons, etc., em discos ou fitas magnéticas
  3. 3
    os dados, imagens, sons, etc., que foram registrados

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: garvação,ggravação,graavção,gravaãço,gravaçoã,gravvação,gravçaão,grravação,grvaação,rgavação

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for gravação

Misspelling Variants of "gravação"

garvação8ggravação9graavção8gravaãço8gravaçoã8gravvação9gravçaão8grravação9
Misspelling Variants of "gravação"

Frequency rank: #3,404 in Portuguese

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "gravação"?
"gravação" is spelled G-R-A-V-A-Ç-Ã-O.
What does "gravação" mean?
As a noun, "gravação" means: ato ou efeito de gravar
What words are commonly confused with "gravação"?
"gravação" is commonly confused with "graduação". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "gravação" come from?
"gravação" is a Portuguese word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Nearby Portuguese words

Other entries that begin with the letter G in our Portuguese index:

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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.