oposição
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,248
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
oposição is aPortuguesenoun. It means: o fato de opor-se Pronounced /ɔ.pu.zi.ˈsɐ̃w̃/. It ranks #2,248 in Portuguese word frequency.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | oposição |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ɔ.pu.zi.ˈsɐ̃w̃/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #2,248 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for oposição is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ɔ.pu.zi.ˈsɐ̃w̃/. Corpus data places it at rank #2,248 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for oposição, with forms such as "oopsição", "opoisção", and "oposiãço". 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 is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 oposição, spelled O-P-O-S-I-Ç-Ã-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1o fato de opor-se
- 2um oponente em alguma forma de competição
- 3partidos que não formam o governo
- 4diz-se de dois astros quando estão em situação diametralmente oposta, com a Terra "no meio", ou seja, quando suas ascensões retas diferem de 180°
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: oopsição,opoisção,oposiãço,oposiçoã,opossição,oposçião,opposição,opsoição,poosição
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for oposição
Misspelling Variants of "oposição"
Frequency rank: #2,248 in Portuguese
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Nearby Portuguese words
Other entries that begin with the letter O in our Portuguese index: