seleção

Name: seleção, Portuguese Word Data
Creator: Wiktionary
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

/sɨ.lɛ.ˈsɐ̃w̃/

//sɨ.lɛ.ˈsɐ̃w̃// noun

By PlainSpell · According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA) · analyzed September 3, 2026

The verdict

“seleção” has 8 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #924. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#924
frequency rank, Portuguese: 1,185
“S” headwords: 8
tracked misspellings: 7
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - ato ou efeito de selecionar

Corpus desk

Index PT-selecao · seleção · Portuguese

seleção · rank #924 · 8 variants · 7 confusables

FREQ-CORE #924
LEN-LONG 7 letters
VOW-3 3 vowels
CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
VAR-MID 8 variants
BOOK-MID 1,185
PHOTO-FINISH sejam

Nearest frequency peer: sejam (-1 rank slots)

Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.

receber

99,080
sejam

99,078
seleção

99,077
superior

99,076
tivesse

99,075
velho

99,074

What this shows “seleção” está entre estes pares FrequencyWords; a profundidade de typo mede-se à parte no gráfico de distância de edição.

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

seleção vs seleto

71% similar

seleção vs select

57% similar

seleção vs solução

71% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for seleção
Property	Value
Headword	seleção
Language	Portuguese
Part of speech	Noun
IPA	/sɨ.lɛ.ˈsɐ̃w̃/
Letters	7
Frequency rank	#924
Misspellings tracked	8
Confusable pairs	7
Source	Wiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequência do íman ortográfico “seleção”

Esta escala corre do núcleo do português quotidiano (esquerda) até o rastro de formas raras (direita).seleçãocai aqui:

#924

#1#100#1K#10K#100K

← used constantlyrarely used →

O eixo é logarítmico: cada tick marca cerca de dez vezes menos frequência. Na mesma faixa de raridade aparecem “sejam” (#923), “superior” (#925), “tivesse” (#926). Entre 1,185 lemas com “S”, “seleção” fica em #924. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 8 spelling variants around seleção (IPA /sɨ.lɛ.ˈsɐ̃w̃/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #924 among 1,185 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for seleção, with forms such as "esleção", "seelção", and "seleãço". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "seleto", "select", "solução", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Portuguese form is seleção, spelled S-E-L-E-Ç-Ã-O.

Definition

1
ato ou efeito de selecionar
2
escolha e/ou separação segundo determinados critérios
3
processo de digitalização de um original, de modo a conseguir a separação nas quatro cores (ciano, magenta, amarelo e preto) utilizadas na impressão; antes, utilização de um conjunto de filtros e outros métodos fotográficos para conseguir o mesmo objetivo
4
porção de texto ou conjunto de itens postos em relevo para sobre eles se exercer qualquer ação ou edição

This word in other languages

selection(English)sélection(Français)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

esleção
seelção
seleãço
seleçoã
selleção
selçeão
sleeção
sseleção

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of seleção - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

Edit distance from "seleção"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "seleção"?

"seleção" is spelled S-E-L-E-Ç-Ã-O. The IPA pronunciation is /sɨ.lɛ.ˈsɐ̃w̃/.

What does "seleção" mean?

As a noun, "seleção" means: ato ou efeito de selecionar

What words are commonly confused with "seleção"?

"seleção" is commonly confused with "seleto", "select", "solução". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.

How do you pronounce "seleção"?

The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "seleção" is /sɨ.lɛ.ˈsɐ̃w̃/. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.

What language does "seleção" come from?

"seleção" is a Portuguese word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.

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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "seleção", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

tivesse#926 receber#921 aumento#929 escolha#936

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).

cabelo8 variants altura8 variants graças8 variants direção8 variants