inflação
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#6,664
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
10
similar word pairs
inflação is aPortuguesenoun. It means: aumento generalizado, inchaço, intumescência Pronounced /ĩ.fla.ˈsɐ̃w̃/. It ranks #6,664 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with inovação and infração.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | inflação |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ĩ.fla.ˈsɐ̃w̃/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #6,664 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for inflação is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ĩ.fla.ˈsɐ̃w̃/. Corpus data places it at rank #6,664 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 inflação, with forms such as "ifnlação", "infalção", and "infflação". 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 10 confusable-pair relationships, "inovação", "infração", "inflexão", 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 inflação, spelled I-N-F-L-A-Ç-Ã-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1aumento generalizado, inchaço, intumescência
- 2desequilíbrio econômico caracterizado pelo crescimento anormal dos meios de pagamento em relação às necessidades de consumo, com a consequente redução do poder aquisitivo da moeda e alta geral dos preços
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ifnlação,infalção,infflação,inflaãço,inflaçoã,infllação,inflçaão,inlfação,innflação,niflação
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for inflação
Misspelling Variants of "inflação"
Frequency rank: #6,664 in Portuguese
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