instalação
/ĩʃ.tɐ.lɐ.ˈsɐ̃w̃/
The verdict
“instalação” has 13 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #2,951. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #2,951
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,526
- “I” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - ato ou efeito de instalar(-se)
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 | instalação |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ĩʃ.tɐ.lɐ.ˈsɐ̃w̃/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #2,951 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “instalação” sits in Portuguese frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around instalação (IPA /ĩʃ.tɐ.lɐ.ˈsɐ̃w̃/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #2,951 among 1,526 “I” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for instalação, with forms such as "innstalação", "insatlação", and "insstalação". 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, "instauração", "inalação", "insolação", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Portuguese form is instalação, spelled I-N-S-T-A-L-A-Ç-Ã-O.
Definition
- 1ato ou efeito de instalar(-se)
- 2colocação dos objetos necessários a determinado trabalho ou empreendimento, incluindo-se a conexão de aparelhos com a rede elétrica
- 3obra de arte que consiste em construção ou empilhamento de materiais, permanente ou temporário, em que o espectador pode participar, manipulando-a, ou, sendo, às vezes, de tamanho tão grande, que o espectador pode nela entrar
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- innstalação
- insatlação
- insstalação
- instaalção
- instalaãço
- instalaçoã
- installação
- instalçaão
- instlaação
- insttalação
- intsalação
- isntalação
- nistalação
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of instalação - 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 “instalação”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is I-N-S-T-A-L-A-Ç-Ã-O - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ĩʃ.tɐ.lɐ.ˈsɐ̃w̃/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “instauração” - see the side-by-side comparison. instalação vs instauração
- 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.