indignação
/ĩ.di.ɡnɐ.ˈsɐ̃w̃/
The verdict
“indignação” has 13 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #11,483. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #11,483
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,526
- “I” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - sentimento de cólera ou de desprezo excitado por uma afronta, uma acção vergonhosa, uma injustiça frisante, etc
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | indignação |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ĩ.di.ɡnɐ.ˈsɐ̃w̃/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #11,483 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “indignação” sits in Portuguese frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around indignação (IPA /ĩ.di.ɡnɐ.ˈsɐ̃w̃/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #11,483 among 1,526 “I” headwords. Dominant gloss: "sentimento de cólera ou de desprezo excitado por uma afronta, uma acção vergonhosa, uma injustiça frisante, etc".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for indignação, with forms such as "idnignação", "inddignação", and "indginação". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "indignada", "indignado", "indicação", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Portuguese form is indignação, spelled I-N-D-I-G-N-A-Ç-Ã-O.
Definition
- 1sentimento de cólera ou de desprezo excitado por uma afronta, uma acção vergonhosa, uma injustiça frisante, etc
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- idnignação
- inddignação
- indginação
- indiganção
- indiggnação
- indignaãço
- indignaçoã
- indignnação
- indignçaão
- indingação
- inidgnação
- inndignação
- nidignação
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of indignação - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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.
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Using “indignação”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is I-N-D-I-G-N-A-Ç-Ã-O - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ĩ.di.ɡnɐ.ˈsɐ̃w̃/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “indignada” - see the side-by-side comparison. indignação vs indignada
- Browse more Portuguese words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Portuguese words
Same frequency band
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.