intenção

noun

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The verdict

“intenção” has 10 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #1,891. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#1,891
frequency rank, Portuguese
938
“I” headwords
10
tracked misspellings
9
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - o ato de escolher mentalmente um plano de ação a seguir

Corpus desk

Index PT-intencao · intenção · Portuguese

intenção · rank #1,891 · 10 variants · 9 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #1,891
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
  • VAR-MID 10 variants
  • BOOK-MID 938
  • PHOTO-FINISH instituição

Nearest frequency peer: instituição (-1 rank slots)

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.

Pares de rank junto ao íman ortográfico “intenção”

Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho

corpus weight

What this shows “intenção” está entre estes pares FrequencyWords; a profundidade de typo mede-se à parte no gráfico de distância de edição.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

intenção vs intenso
75% similar
intenção vs isenção
75% similar
intenção vs invenção
88% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for intenção
PropertyValue
Headwordintenção
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
Letters8
Frequency rank#1,891
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs9
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequência do íman ortográfico “intenção”

Esta escala corre do núcleo do português quotidiano (esquerda) até o rastro de formas raras (direita).intençãocai aqui:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Os ticks avançam em logaritmo; cada um é da ordem de dez vezes mais raro. Na mesma faixa de raridade aparecem “instituição” (#1,890), “inicial” (#1,889), “James” (#1,893). Entre 938 lemas com “I”, “intenção” fica em #1,891. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 10 spelling variants around intenção, anoun. Corpus frequency is #1,891 among 938 “I” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for intenção, with forms such as "inetnção", "inntenção", and "intennção". 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 9 confusable-pair relationships, "intenso", "isenção", "invenção", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Portuguese form is intenção, spelled I-N-T-E-N-Ç-Ã-O.

Definition

  1. 1
    o ato de escolher mentalmente um plano de ação a seguir
  2. 2
    o resultado final que se pretende atingir
  3. 3
    significado

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. O sacrifício dos perversos já é abominação; quanto mais oferecendo-o com intenção maligna.
  2. De boas intenções o inferno está cheio.

This word in other languages

intention(English)intención(Español)intention(Français)Absicht(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • inetnção
  • inntenção
  • intennção
  • intenãço
  • intençoã
  • inteçnão
  • intneção
  • inttenção
  • itnenção
  • nitenção

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of intenção - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

inetnção2inntenção1intennção1intenãço2intençoã2inteçnão2intneção2inttenção1
Edit distance from "intenção"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "intenção"?
"intenção" is spelled I-N-T-E-N-Ç-Ã-O.
What does "intenção" mean?
As a noun, "intenção" means: o ato de escolher mentalmente um plano de ação a seguir
What words are commonly confused with "intenção"?
"intenção" is commonly confused with "intenso", "isenção", "invenção". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "intenção" come from?
"intenção" is a Portuguese word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "intenção", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

concurso#1,877complexo#1,916discutir#1,920promover#1,862

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).

formato10 variantsdesenho10 variantsproduto10 variantsestudar10 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list