primária

//pɾi.ˈma.ɾjɐ// adj

Letters

8 characters

Frequency Rank

#7,449

in Portuguese word usage

Misspellings

11

tracked variants

Confusables

3

similar word pairs

primária is anPortugueseadj. It means: feminino de primário Pronounced /pɾi.ˈma.ɾjɐ/. It ranks #7,449 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with primata and primário.

Key facts for primária
PropertyValue
Headwordprimária
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechAdj
IPA/pɾi.ˈma.ɾjɐ/
Letters8
Frequency rank#7,449
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs3
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of primária in Portuguese word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for primária is 8 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /pɾi.ˈma.ɾjɐ/. Corpus data places it at rank #7,449 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "feminino de primário".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for primária, with forms such as "pirmária", "pprimária", and "primmária". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "primata", "primário", "primazia", 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 primária, spelled P-R-I-M-Á-R-I-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    feminino de primário

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: pirmária,pprimária,primmária,primráia,primáira,primárai,primárria,priámria,prmiária,prrimária,rpimária

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for primária

Misspelling Variants of "primária"

pirmária8pprimária9primmária9primráia8primáira8primárai8primárria9priámria8
Misspelling Variants of "primária"

Frequency rank: #7,449 in Portuguese

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "primária"?
"primária" is spelled P-R-I-M-Á-R-I-A. The IPA pronunciation is /pɾi.ˈma.ɾjɐ/.
What does "primária" mean?
As an adj, "primária" means: feminino de primário
What words are commonly confused with "primária"?
"primária" is commonly confused with "primata", "primário", "primazia". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "primária"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "primária" is /pɾi.ˈma.ɾjɐ/. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "primária" come from?
"primária" is a Portuguese word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.