privação

//pɾi.vɐ.ˈsɐ̃w̃// noun

Letters

8 characters

Frequency Rank

#20,701

in Portuguese word usage

Misspellings

10

tracked variants

Confusables

3

similar word pairs

privação is aPortuguesenoun. It means: ato ou efeito de privar Pronounced /pɾi.vɐ.ˈsɐ̃w̃/. Often confused with privada and privado.

Key facts for privação
PropertyValue
Headwordprivação
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
IPA/pɾi.vɐ.ˈsɐ̃w̃/
Letters8
Frequency rank#20,701
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs3
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for privação is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /pɾi.vɐ.ˈsɐ̃w̃/. Corpus data places it at rank #20,701 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "ato ou efeito de privar".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for privação, with forms such as "pirvação", "pprivação", and "priavção". 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, "privada", "privado", "pregação", 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 privação, spelled P-R-I-V-A-Ç-Ã-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    ato ou efeito de privar

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: pirvação,pprivação,priavção,privaãço,privaçoã,privvação,privçaão,prrivação,prviação,rpivação

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for privação

Misspelling Variants of "privação"

pirvação8pprivação9priavção8privaãço8privaçoã8privvação9privçaão8prrivação9
Misspelling Variants of "privação"

Frequency rank: #20,701 in Portuguese

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "privação"?
"privação" is spelled P-R-I-V-A-Ç-Ã-O. The IPA pronunciation is /pɾi.vɐ.ˈsɐ̃w̃/.
What does "privação" mean?
As a noun, "privação" means: ato ou efeito de privar
What words are commonly confused with "privação"?
"privação" is commonly confused with "privada", "privado", "pregação". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "privação"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "privação" is /pɾi.vɐ.ˈsɐ̃w̃/. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "privação" come from?
"privação" is a Portuguese word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Nearby Portuguese words

Other entries that begin with the letter P in our Portuguese index:

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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.