programação
/pɾu.ɡɾɐ.mɐ.ˈsɐ̃w̃/
The verdict
“programação” has 15 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #1,828. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,828
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 3,113
- “P” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - ato ou efeito de programar ou planejar um evento
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | programação |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /pɾu.ɡɾɐ.mɐ.ˈsɐ̃w̃/ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #1,828 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “programação” sits in Portuguese frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around programação (IPA /pɾu.ɡɾɐ.mɐ.ˈsɐ̃w̃/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #1,828 among 3,113 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for programação, with forms such as "porgramação", "pprogramação", and "prgoramação". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "programado", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Portuguese form is programação, spelled P-R-O-G-R-A-M-A-Ç-Ã-O.
Definition
- 1ato ou efeito de programar ou planejar um evento
- 2programa ou plano contendo ações a serem tomadas em um evento
- 3agenda ou cronograma de determinado evento
- 4atividade que consiste em escrever o código-fonte de um programa computacional
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: porgramação,pprogramação,prgoramação,progarmação,proggramação,prograamção,programaãço,programaçoã,programmação,programçaão,progrmaação,progrramação,prorgamação,prrogramação,rpogramação
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of programação - 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 “programação”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is P-R-O-G-R-A-M-A-Ç-Ã-O - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /pɾu.ɡɾɐ.mɐ.ˈsɐ̃w̃/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “programado” - see the side-by-side comparison. programação vs programado
- Browse more Portuguese words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Portuguese words
Same frequency band
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.