herança
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#4,563
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
2
similar word pairs
herança is aPortuguesenoun. It means: patrimônio passado por alguém que faleceu para ser distribuído entre seus sucessores legais Pronounced /e.ˈɾɐ̃.sɐ/. It ranks #4,563 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with hérnia and heroica.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | herança |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /e.ˈɾɐ̃.sɐ/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #4,563 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for herança is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /e.ˈɾɐ̃.sɐ/. Corpus data places it at rank #4,563 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for herança, with forms such as "ehrança", "hearnça", and "heranaç". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "hérnia", "heroica", 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 herança, spelled H-E-R-A-N-Ç-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1patrimônio passado por alguém que faleceu para ser distribuído entre seus sucessores legais
- 2aquilo que se herda
- 3dom transmitido de uma geração para as seguintes
- 4características biológicas passadas de um indivíduo para seus descendentes
- 5princípio da programação orientada a objetos que permite que subclasses recebam os mesmos atributos e operações que a classe-pai
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ehrança,hearnça,heranaç,herannça,heraçna,hernaça,herrança,hherança,hreança
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for herança
Misspelling Variants of "herança"
Frequency rank: #4,563 in Portuguese
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