imagination

/ɪˌmædʒəˈneɪʃən/

//ɪˌmædʒəˈneɪʃən// noun

The verdict

“imagination” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #82,154 among 938 “I” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#82,154
frequency rank, Portuguese
938
“I” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - imaginação

Corpus desk

Index PT-imagination · imagination · Portuguese

imagination · rank #82,154 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #82,154
  • LEN-MEGA 11 letters
  • VOW-6 6 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 938
  • PHOTO-FINISH industrialmen…

Nearest frequency peer: industrialmente (+5 rank slots)

Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.

Ranks da cauda longa perto de “imagination”

Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto

corpus weight

What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “imagination” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for imagination
PropertyValue
Headwordimagination
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
IPA/ɪˌmædʒəˈneɪʃən/
Letters11
Frequency rank#82,154
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Cauda longa: rank de “imagination” em português

A frequência vai do punhado de palavras do dia a dia (esquerda) à cauda longa quase nunca usada (direita).imaginationcai nesta cauda de raridade:

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

Os ticks avançam em logaritmo; cada um é da ordem de dez vezes mais raro. Vizinhos raros da mesma faixa: “industrialmente” (#82,159), “insolvente” (#82,163), “hidrodinâmica” (#82,137). Entre 938 lemas com “I”, “imagination” fica em #82,154. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

imagination is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #82,154 among 938 “I” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ɪˌmædʒəˈneɪʃən/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "imaginação".

No generated misspelling entries exist for imagination in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Portuguese rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is imagination, spelled I-M-A-G-I-N-A-T-I-O-N.

Definition

  1. 1
    imaginação

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 "imagination"?
"imagination" is spelled I-M-A-G-I-N-A-T-I-O-N. The IPA pronunciation is /ɪˌmædʒəˈneɪʃən/.
What does "imagination" mean?
As a noun, "imagination" means: imaginação
How do you pronounce "imagination"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "imagination" is /ɪˌmædʒəˈneɪʃən/. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "imagination" come from?
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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "imagination", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list