involução

noun

The verdict

“involução” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #78,852 among 938 “I” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#78,852
frequency rank, Portuguese
938
“I” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - movimento regressivo, processo de regredir

Corpus desk

Index PT-involucao · involução · Portuguese

involução · rank #78,852 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #78,852
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 938
  • PHOTO-FINISH intratável

Nearest frequency peer: intratável (-5 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.

Ranks da cauda longa perto de “involução”

Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto

corpus weight

What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “involução” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for involução
PropertyValue
Headwordinvolução
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
Letters9
Frequency rank#78,852
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Cauda longa: rank de “involução” em português

A frequência vai do punhado de palavras do dia a dia (esquerda) à cauda longa quase nunca usada (direita).involuçãocai nesta cauda de raridade:

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

O eixo é logarítmico: cada tick marca cerca de dez vezes menos frequência. Vizinhos raros da mesma faixa: “intratável” (#78,847), “inquestionavelmente” (#78,842), “Kenia” (#78,874). Entre 938 lemas com “I”, “involução” fica em #78,852. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

involução is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #78,852 among 938 “I” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.

involução doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Portuguese form is involução, spelled I-N-V-O-L-U-Ç-Ã-O.

Definition

  1. 1
    movimento regressivo, processo de regredir
  2. 2
    movimento para dentro, para o interior
  3. 3
    condição, estado de um órgão que se encontra voltado para dentro
  4. 4
    movimento transformacional idêntico a seu inverso
  5. 5
    retorno que o órgão dilatado faz para suas dimensões normais anteriores

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. “O quadro atual representa uma involução na proteção de direitos fundamentais e caracteriza risco à ordem e segurança públicas apto a justificar a concessão da medida de contracautela”, anotou em despacho assinado neste domingo, 8.
  2. Automorfismos, antiautomorfismos e involuções de álgebra de incidência finitárias

Synonyms

This word in other languages

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 "involução"?
"involução" is spelled I-N-V-O-L-U-Ç-Ã-O.
What does "involução" mean?
As a noun, "involução" means: movimento regressivo, processo de regredir
What language does "involução" come from?
"involução" is a Portuguese word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list