negação
/nɨ.ɡɐ.ˈsɐ̃w̃/
The verdict
“negação” has 8 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #9,728. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #9,728
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 360
- “N” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - ato ou efeito de negar
Corpus desk
Index PT-negacao · negação · Portuguese
negação · rank #9,728 · 8 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,728
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 360
- PHOTO-FINISH mentalidade
Nearest frequency peer: mentalidade (-7 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Pares de rank junto ao íman ortográfico “negação”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- magoar
magoar
90,284 corpus weight
- mara
mara
90,283 corpus weight
- martelo
martelo
90,282 corpus weight
- mentalidade
mentalidade
90,280 corpus weight
- negação
negação
90,273 corpus weight
- peculiar
peculiar
90,264 corpus weight
What this shows “negação” está entre estes pares FrequencyWords; a profundidade de typo mede-se à parte no gráfico de distância de edição.
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 | negação |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /nɨ.ɡɐ.ˈsɐ̃w̃/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #9,728 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “negação”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around negação (IPA /nɨ.ɡɐ.ˈsɐ̃w̃/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #9,728 among 360 “N” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for negação, with forms such as "engação", "neagção", and "negaãço". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 7 confusable-pair relationships, "negão", "negrão", "negócio", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct Portuguese form is negação, spelled N-E-G-A-Ç-Ã-O.
Definition
- 1ato ou efeito de negar
- 2em lógica e matemática, é uma operação sobre valores lógicos: se uma proposição é verdadeira, então este operador lógico produz o valor falso, e vice versa
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how negação appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ano passado, o Parlamento da França aprovou uma lei que transformou em crime a negação do genocídio armênio.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- engação
- neagção
- negaãço
- negaçoã
- neggação
- negçaão
- ngeação
- nnegação
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of negação - 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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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "negação", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).