imperialismo

//ĩ.pɨ.ɾjɐ.ˈliʒ.mu// noun

Letters

12 characters

Frequency Rank

#17,046

in Portuguese word usage

Misspellings

17

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

imperialismo is aPortuguesenoun. It means: sistema de governo que preconiza uma monarquia chefiada por imperador ou imperatriz; governo ou autoridade imperial Pronounced /ĩ.pɨ.ɾjɐ.ˈliʒ.mu/.

Key facts for imperialismo
PropertyValue
Headwordimperialismo
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
IPA/ĩ.pɨ.ɾjɐ.ˈliʒ.mu/
Letters12
Frequency rank#17,046
Misspellings tracked17
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for imperialismo is 12 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ĩ.pɨ.ɾjɐ.ˈliʒ.mu/. Corpus data places it at rank #17,046 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 17 documented wrong-spelling variants for imperialismo, with forms such as "imeprialismo", "immperialismo", and "impeiralismo". 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 is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

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 imperialismo, spelled I-M-P-E-R-I-A-L-I-S-M-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    sistema de governo que preconiza uma monarquia chefiada por imperador ou imperatriz; governo ou autoridade imperial
  2. 2
    sistema de governo que preconiza uma monarquia chefiada por imperador ou imperatriz; governo ou autoridade imperial
  3. 3
    (Rubrica: economia, política): forma de política ou prática exercida por um Estado que visa à própria expansão, seja por meio de aquisição territorial, seja pela submissão econômica, política e cultural de outros Estados
  4. 4
    (Rubrica: economia, política): forma de política ou prática exercida por um Estado que visa à própria expansão, seja por meio de aquisição territorial, seja pela submissão econômica, política e cultural de outros Estados
  5. 5
    (Derivação: sentido figurado): tendência a dominar moral, psíquica ou intelectualmente
  6. 6
    (Derivação: sentido figurado, por metonímia): domínio (exercido por alguém ou por uma instituição, teoria etc.); supremacia
  7. 7
    (Rubrica: economia, filosofia): no vocabulário marxista, etapa inevitável, por sua própria natureza, do desenvolvimento da economia capitalista, durante a qual o capital financeiro assume supremacia

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: imeprialismo,immperialismo,impeiralismo,imperailismo,imperiailsmo,imperialimso,imperialismmo,imperialisom,imperialissmo,imperiallismo,imperialsimo,imperilaismo,imperrialismo,impperialismo,impreialismo,ipmerialismo,miperialismo

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for imperialismo

Misspelling Variants of "imperialismo"

imeprialismo12immperialismo13impeiralismo12imperailismo12imperiailsmo12imperialimso12imperialismmo13imperialisom12
Misspelling Variants of "imperialismo"

Frequency rank: #17,046 in Portuguese

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "imperialismo"?
"imperialismo" is spelled I-M-P-E-R-I-A-L-I-S-M-O. The IPA pronunciation is /ĩ.pɨ.ɾjɐ.ˈliʒ.mu/.
What does "imperialismo" mean?
As a noun, "imperialismo" means: sistema de governo que preconiza uma monarquia chefiada por imperador ou imperatriz; governo ou autoridade imperial
What are common misspellings of "imperialismo"?
Common misspellings include "imeprialismo", "immperialismo", "impeiralismo", "imperailismo", "imperiailsmo". The correct spelling is "imperialismo".
How do you pronounce "imperialismo"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "imperialismo" is /ĩ.pɨ.ɾjɐ.ˈliʒ.mu/. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "imperialismo" come from?
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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.