ironia
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#5,963
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
2
similar word pairs
ironia is aPortuguesenoun. It means: uso de palavras para transmitir um sentido oposto ao sentido literal Pronounced /i.ɾu.ˈni.ɐ/. It ranks #5,963 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with irónico and iron.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ironia |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /i.ɾu.ˈni.ɐ/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #5,963 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for ironia is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /i.ɾu.ˈni.ɐ/. Corpus data places it at rank #5,963 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for ironia, with forms such as "iornia", "irnoia", and "iroina". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "irónico", "iron", 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 ironia, spelled I-R-O-N-I-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1uso de palavras para transmitir um sentido oposto ao sentido literal
- 2resultado de eventos que é contrário ao que seria esperado
- 3estilo sarcástico de escrita ou fala
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: iornia,irnoia,iroina,ironai,ironnia,irronia,rionia
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for ironia
Misspelling Variants of "ironia"
Frequency rank: #5,963 in Portuguese
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Nearby Portuguese words
Other entries that begin with the letter I in our Portuguese index: