infecção

noun

Letters

8 characters

Frequency Rank

#5,749

in Portuguese word usage

Misspellings

10

tracked variants

Confusables

7

similar word pairs

infecção is aPortuguesenoun. It means: colonização de um organismo hospedeiro por uma espécie estranha It ranks #5,749 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with injeção and intenção.

Key facts for infecção
PropertyValue
Headwordinfecção
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
Letters8
Frequency rank#5,749
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs7
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for infecção is 8 letters long, classified as anoun. Corpus data places it at rank #5,749 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for infecção, with forms such as "ifnecção", "inefcção", and "infceção". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 7 confusable-pair relationships, "injeção", "intenção", "inflação", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

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 infecção, spelled I-N-F-E-C-Ç-Ã-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    colonização de um organismo hospedeiro por uma espécie estranha
  2. 2
    instalação ou presença de vírus em arquivo, disco, sistema operacional ou dispositivo

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: ifnecção,inefcção,infceção,infeccção,infecãço,infecçoã,infeçcão,inffecção,innfecção,nifecção

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for infecção

Misspelling Variants of "infecção"

ifnecção8inefcção8infceção8infeccção9infecãço8infecçoã8infeçcão8inffecção9
Misspelling Variants of "infecção"

Frequency rank: #5,749 in Portuguese

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "infecção"?
"infecção" is spelled I-N-F-E-C-Ç-Ã-O.
What does "infecção" mean?
As a noun, "infecção" means: colonização de um organismo hospedeiro por uma espécie estranha
What words are commonly confused with "infecção"?
"infecção" is commonly confused with "injeção", "intenção", "inflação". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "infecção" come from?
"infecção" is a Portuguese word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Nearby Portuguese words

Other entries that begin with the letter I in our Portuguese index:

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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.