resistência
Letters
11 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,626
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
16
tracked variants
Confusables
1
similar word pairs
resistência is aPortuguesenoun. It means: o fato de resistir Pronounced /ʀɨ.ziʃ.ˈtẽ.sjɐ/. It ranks #1,626 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with resiliência.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | resistência |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ʀɨ.ziʃ.ˈtẽ.sjɐ/ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #1,626 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for resistência is 11 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ʀɨ.ziʃ.ˈtẽ.sjɐ/. Corpus data places it at rank #1,626 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 16 documented wrong-spelling variants for resistência, with forms such as "ersistência", "reisstência", and "resisstência". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "resiliência", 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 resistência, spelled R-E-S-I-S-T-Ê-N-C-I-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1o fato de resistir
- 2oposição a passagem de corrente elétrica por um material
- 3denominação comum para dispositivos que transformam energia elétrica em energia térmica
- 4movimento de oposição política ou militar contra ocupações estrangeiras ou, mais raramente, contra seu próprio governo
- 5atrito criado pela fricção entre dois objetos que provoca uma perda de energia
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ersistência,reisstência,resisstência,resistnêcia,resisttência,resistêcnia,resistêncai,resistênccia,resistênica,resistênncia,resisêtncia,resitsência,ressistência,ressitência,rresistência,rseistência
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for resistência
Misspelling Variants of "resistência"
Frequency rank: #1,626 in Portuguese
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Nearby Portuguese words
Other entries that begin with the letter R in our Portuguese index: