impressão digital

phrase

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The verdict

“impressão digital” is uncommon Portuguese (outside the top frequency list), classed as a phrase. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

Unranked
below top-frequency Portuguese
17
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - marca deixada pelas falanges das extremidades dos dedos das mãos em uma superfície qualquer

Key facts for impressão digital
PropertyValue
Headwordimpressão digital
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechPhrase
Letters17
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “impressão digital” sits in Portuguese frequency

impressão digital falls outside the top-100,000 ranked Portuguese words, the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

impressão digital is uncommon Portuguese outside the top frequency list, classed as aphrase. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.

No generated misspelling entries exist for impressão digital in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Portuguese patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is impressão digital, spelled I-M-P-R-E-S-S-Ã-O- -D-I-G-I-T-A-L.

Definition

  1. 1
    marca deixada pelas falanges das extremidades dos dedos das mãos em uma superfície qualquer
  2. 2
    método de impressão que dispensa a matriz tradicional do offset (chapa de zinco ou alumínio), substituída por uma matriz digital que pode variar durante o processo, a uma velocidade que permite imprimir cada folha diferente da anterior

This word in other languages

fingerprint(English)empreinte digitale(Français)Fingerabdruck(Deutsch)

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "impressão digital"?
"impressão digital" is spelled I-M-P-R-E-S-S-Ã-O- -D-I-G-I-T-A-L.
What does "impressão digital" mean?
As a phrase, "impressão digital" means: marca deixada pelas falanges das extremidades dos dedos das mãos em uma superfície qualquer
What language does "impressão digital" come from?
"impressão digital" is a Portuguese word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Using “impressão digital”

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

  • The one correct Portuguese spelling is I-M-P-R-E-S-S-Ã-O- -D-I-G-I-T-A-L - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • 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