impressão digital

phrase

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 September 3, 2026) - marca deixada pelas falanges das extremidades dos dedos das mãos em uma superfície qualquer

Corpus desk

Index PT-impressao-digital · impressão digital · Portuguese

impressão digital · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-MEGA 17 letters
  • VOW-6 6 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-THIN "I" thin
  • PHOTO-UNK Peer pending

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.

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

Cauda longa: rank de “impressão digital” em português

impressão digitalnão entra no top 100.000 do português: zona de termos técnicos, arcaicos ou escassos.

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

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how impressão digital appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Veja as pistas que ele deixou, essas impressões digitais ajudarão bastante em nossa investigação.

This word in other languages

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list