legislação
/lɨ.ʒiʒ.lɐ.ˈsɐ̃w̃/
The verdict
“legislação” has 13 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #2,103. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #2,103
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,251
- “L” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - direito de fazer leis
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | legislação |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /lɨ.ʒiʒ.lɐ.ˈsɐ̃w̃/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #2,103 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “legislação” sits in Portuguese frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around legislação (IPA /lɨ.ʒiʒ.lɐ.ˈsɐ̃w̃/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #2,103 among 1,251 “L” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for legislação, with forms such as "elgislação", "leggislação", and "legilsação". 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 is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Portuguese form is legislação, spelled L-E-G-I-S-L-A-Ç-Ã-O.
Definition
- 1direito de fazer leis
- 2ciência das leis
- 3coleção de leis de um país
- 4conjunto de leis acerca de matéria particular
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: elgislação,leggislação,legilsação,legisalção,legislaãço,legislaçoã,legisllação,legislçaão,legisslação,legsilação,leigslação,lgeislação,llegislação
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of legislação - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 “legislação”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is L-E-G-I-S-L-A-Ç-Ã-O - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /lɨ.ʒiʒ.lɐ.ˈsɐ̃w̃/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more Portuguese words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Portuguese words
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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.