ideologia

noun

The verdict

“ideologia” is a regularly-used Portuguese word, ranked #6,192 in Portuguese word frequency and used as a noun.

#6,192
frequency rank, Portuguese
9
letters
11
tracked misspellings
1
confusable pair

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - ciência que estuda a formação e a origem das ideias

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

ideologia vs ideológico
70% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for ideologia
PropertyValue
Headwordideologia
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
Letters9
Frequency rank#6,192
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs1
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “ideologia” sits in Portuguese frequency

Every-word frequency runs from the handful of words we use constantly (left) to the long tail used once in a blue moon (right). ideologia lands here:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Scale is logarithmic (each tick is 10× rarer). Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for ideologia is 9 letters long, classified as a noun. Corpus data places it at rank #6,192 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for ideologia, with forms such as "dieologia", "iddeologia", and "ideloogia". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "ideológico", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Portuguese form is ideologia, spelled I-D-E-O-L-O-G-I-A.

Definition

  1. 1
    ciência que estuda a formação e a origem das ideias
  2. 2
    conjunto de ideias, crenças e doutrinas, próprias de uma sociedade, de uma época ou de uma classe
  3. 3
    maneira de pensar inerente a um indivíduo ou a um grupo de indivíduos
  4. 4
    sistema organizado e fechado de ideias que serve de base a uma luta política
  5. 5
    crença falsa ou falsa consciência das relações de domínio entre as classes resultante da distorção ou inversão proposital da realidade feita pela classe dominante
  6. 6
    a maneira como a classe dominante estabelece e sustenta relações de dominação

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: dieologia,iddeologia,ideloogia,ideolgoia,ideollogia,ideologai,ideologgia,ideoloiga,ideoolgia,idoelogia,iedologia

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of ideologia - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

dieologia2iddeologia1ideloogia2ideolgoia2ideollogia1ideologai2ideologgia1ideoloiga2
Edit distance from "ideologia"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "ideologia"?
"ideologia" is spelled I-D-E-O-L-O-G-I-A.
What does "ideologia" mean?
As a noun, "ideologia" means: ciência que estuda a formação e a origem das ideias
What words are commonly confused with "ideologia"?
"ideologia" is commonly confused with "ideológico". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "ideologia" come from?
"ideologia" is a Portuguese word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Using “ideologia”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct Portuguese spelling is I-D-E-O-L-O-G-I-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Don't mix it up with “ideológico” - see the side-by-side comparison. ideologia vs ideológico
  • Browse more Portuguese words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Portuguese words
Data Source

Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list FrequencyWords open word-frequency list