Lusitânia
/lu.zi.ˈtã.nja/
The verdict
“Lusitânia” is an uncommon Portuguese word, ranked #58,635 in Portuguese word frequency and used as a noun.
- #58,635
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - antiga província romana que ocupava a área aproximadamente centro e sul do atual Portugal (a sul do rio Douro), e oeste da Espanha, (Salamanca e Estremadura espanhola)
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Lusitânia |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /lu.zi.ˈtã.nja/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #58,635 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Lusitânia” sits in Portuguese frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for Lusitânia is 9 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /lu.zi.ˈtã.nja/. Corpus data places it at rank #58,635 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Lusitânia doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Portuguese rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is Lusitânia, spelled L-U-S-I-T-Â-N-I-A.
Definition
- 1antiga província romana que ocupava a área aproximadamente centro e sul do atual Portugal (a sul do rio Douro), e oeste da Espanha, (Salamanca e Estremadura espanhola)
- 2Portugal
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.
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Using “Lusitânia”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is L-U-S-I-T-Â-N-I-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /lu.zi.ˈtã.nja/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.