população
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#351
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
população is aPortuguesenoun. It means: conjunto de pessoas que habitam uma certa região num certo momento Pronounced /po.pu.la.ˈsãw/. It ranks #351 in Portuguese word frequency.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | população |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /po.pu.la.ˈsãw/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #351 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for população is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /po.pu.la.ˈsãw/. Corpus data places it at rank #351 in overall Portuguese word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for população, with forms such as "oppulação", "popluação", and "poppulação". 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 população, spelled P-O-P-U-L-A-Ç-Ã-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1conjunto de pessoas que habitam uma certa região num certo momento
- 2quantidade de habitantes de uma certa região num certo momento
- 3conjunto de seres vivos da mesma espécie que habitam uma certa região num certo momento
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: oppulação,popluação,poppulação,popualção,populaãço,populaçoã,popullação,populçaão,pouplação,ppopulação,ppoulação
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "população"
Frequency rank: #351 in Portuguese
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