oração
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#3,851
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
5
similar word pairs
oração is aPortuguesenoun. It means: palavra ou agrupamento de palavras que expressam pensamento ou sentimento, que tem sentido completo Pronounced /ɔ.ɾɐ.ˈsɐ̃w̃/. It ranks #3,851 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with órgão and órfão.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | oração |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ɔ.ɾɐ.ˈsɐ̃w̃/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #3,851 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for oração is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ɔ.ɾɐ.ˈsɐ̃w̃/. Corpus data places it at rank #3,851 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 Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for oração, with forms such as "oarção", "oraãço", and "oraçoã". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "órgão", "órfão", "oráculo", and more, 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 oração, spelled O-R-A-Ç-Ã-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1palavra ou agrupamento de palavras que expressam pensamento ou sentimento, que tem sentido completo
- 2expressão verbal formada por sujeito, predicado e atributo (se for ao caso)
- 3invocação dirigida a Deus ou santos
- 4o ato de rezar
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: oarção,oraãço,oraçoã,orração,orçaão,roação
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for oração
Misspelling Variants of "oração"
Frequency rank: #3,851 in Portuguese
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Nearby Portuguese words
Other entries that begin with the letter O in our Portuguese index: