opressão
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#12,119
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
1
similar word pairs
opressão is aPortuguesenoun. It means: ato ou efeito de oprimir Pronounced /ɔ.pɾɨ.ˈsɐ̃w̃/. Often confused with obsessão.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | opressão |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ɔ.pɾɨ.ˈsɐ̃w̃/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #12,119 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for opressão is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ɔ.pɾɨ.ˈsɐ̃w̃/. Corpus data places it at rank #12,119 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 5 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 opressão, with forms such as "operssão", "oppressão", and "opressoã". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "obsessão", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 opressão, spelled O-P-R-E-S-S-Ã-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1ato ou efeito de oprimir
- 2dificuldade de respiração
- 3incômodo de quem respira mal
- 4abatimento de forças
- 5vexame; tirania
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: operssão,oppressão,opressoã,opresão,opresãso,oprressão,oprsesão,orpessão,poressão
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Misspelling Variants of "opressão"
Frequency rank: #12,119 in Portuguese
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