ironia

//i.ɾu.ˈni.ɐ// noun

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.

Key facts for ironia
PropertyValue
Headwordironia
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
IPA/i.ɾu.ˈni.ɐ/
Letters6
Frequency rank#5,963
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs2
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of ironia in Portuguese word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

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

  1. 1
    uso de palavras para transmitir um sentido oposto ao sentido literal
  2. 2
    resultado de eventos que é contrário ao que seria esperado
  3. 3
    estilo 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"

iornia6irnoia6iroina6ironai6ironnia7irronia7rionia6
Misspelling Variants of "ironia"

Frequency rank: #5,963 in Portuguese

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "ironia"?
"ironia" is spelled I-R-O-N-I-A. The IPA pronunciation is /i.ɾu.ˈni.ɐ/.
What does "ironia" mean?
As a noun, "ironia" means: uso de palavras para transmitir um sentido oposto ao sentido literal
What words are commonly confused with "ironia"?
"ironia" is commonly confused with "irónico", "iron". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "ironia"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "ironia" is /i.ɾu.ˈni.ɐ/. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "ironia" come from?
"ironia" is a Portuguese word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Nearby Portuguese words

Other entries that begin with the letter I in our Portuguese index:

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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.