participação
/pɐɾ.ti.si.pɐ.ˈsɐ̃w̃/
The verdict
“participação” is in the everyday core of Portuguese, ranked #713 in Portuguese word frequency and used as a noun.
- #713
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 12
- letters
- 16
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - ato ou efeito de participar
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | participação |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /pɐɾ.ti.si.pɐ.ˈsɐ̃w̃/ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #713 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “participação” sits in Portuguese frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for participação is 12 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /pɐɾ.ti.si.pɐ.ˈsɐ̃w̃/. Corpus data places it at rank #713 in overall Portuguese word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "ato ou efeito de participar".
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for participação, with forms such as "aprticipação", "paritcipação", and "parrticipação". 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. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
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. The correct Portuguese form is participação, spelled P-A-R-T-I-C-I-P-A-Ç-Ã-O.
Definition
- 1ato ou efeito de participar
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: aprticipação,paritcipação,parrticipação,partciipação,particcipação,particiapção,participaãço,participaçoã,particippação,participçaão,particpiação,partiicpação,partticipação,patricipação,pparticipação,praticipação
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of participação - 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 “participação”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is P-A-R-T-I-C-I-P-A-Ç-Ã-O - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /pɐɾ.ti.si.pɐ.ˈsɐ̃w̃/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more Portuguese words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Portuguese words
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.