seleção
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#924
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
7
similar word pairs
seleção is aPortuguesenoun. It means: ato ou efeito de selecionar Pronounced /sɨ.lɛ.ˈsɐ̃w̃/. It ranks #924 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with seleto and select.
| 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) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for seleção is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /sɨ.lɛ.ˈsɐ̃w̃/. Corpus data places it at rank #924 in overall Portuguese word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for seleção, with forms such as "esleção", "seelção", and "seleãço". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 7 confusable-pair relationships, "seleto", "select", "solução", and more, 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 seleção, spelled S-E-L-E-Ç-Ã-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1ato ou efeito de selecionar
- 2escolha e/ou separação segundo determinados critérios
- 3processo 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
- 4porção de texto ou conjunto de itens postos em relevo para sobre eles se exercer qualquer ação ou edição
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: esleção,seelção,seleãço,seleçoã,selleção,selçeão,sleeção,sseleção
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for seleção
Misspelling Variants of "seleção"
Frequency rank: #924 in Portuguese
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Nearby Portuguese words
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