marcação
/mɐɾ.ˈkɐ.sɐ.ɐ̃w̃/
The verdict
“marcação” has 10 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #10,556. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #10,556
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 2,261
- “M” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - acção ou efeito de marcar
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | marcação |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /mɐɾ.ˈkɐ.sɐ.ɐ̃w̃/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #10,556 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “marcação” sits in Portuguese frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around marcação (IPA /mɐɾ.ˈkɐ.sɐ.ɐ̃w̃/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #10,556 among 2,261 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "acção ou efeito de marcar".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for marcação, with forms such as "amrcação", "macração", and "maracção". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "marcado", "macaca", "macacão", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
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 marcação, spelled M-A-R-C-A-Ç-Ã-O.
Definition
- 1acção ou efeito de marcar
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- amrcação
- macração
- maracção
- marcaãço
- marcaçoã
- marccação
- marcçaão
- marrcação
- mmarcação
- mracação
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of marcação - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 “marcação”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is M-A-R-C-A-Ç-Ã-O - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /mɐɾ.ˈkɐ.sɐ.ɐ̃w̃/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “marcado” - see the side-by-side comparison. marcação vs marcado
- Browse more Portuguese words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Portuguese words
Same frequency band
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.