sessão
/sɨ.ˈsɐ̃w̃/
The verdict
“sessão” has 6 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #1,830. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,830
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,185
- “S” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 10
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - tempo durante o qual um corpo deliberativo se reúne
Corpus desk
Index PT-sessao · sessão · Portuguese
sessão · rank #1,830 · 6 variants · 10 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,830
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,185
- PHOTO-FINISH programação
Nearest frequency peer: programação (-2 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.
Pares de rank junto ao íman ortográfico “sessão”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- oferecer
oferecer
98,176 corpus weight
- programação
programação
98,173 corpus weight
- sessão
sessão
98,171 corpus weight
- terminar
terminar
98,169 corpus weight
- vencer
vencer
98,168 corpus weight
- agente
agente
98,167 corpus weight
What this shows “sessão” 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).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sessão |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /sɨ.ˈsɐ̃w̃/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #1,830 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “sessão”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around sessão (IPA /sɨ.ˈsɐ̃w̃/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #1,830 among 1,185 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for sessão, with forms such as "esssão", "sessoã", and "sesão". 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 10 confusable-pair relationships, "serão", "seção", "senão", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Portuguese form is sessão, spelled S-E-S-S-Ã-O.
Definition
- 1tempo durante o qual um corpo deliberativo se reúne
- 2duração anual de um congresso
- 3período de tempo de exibição de um espetáculo
- 4reunião
- 5exibição de um filme ou programa
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how sessão appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
A cerimônia começa às 15 horas, na Câmara Municipal, em sessão que será presidida pelo vereador mais antigo, Wadih Mutran (PP).
Ela subiu a escadaria para a sessão especial de Kung Fu Panda, de braço dado com o marido, Brad Pitt.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- esssão
- sessoã
- sesão
- sesãso
- ssessão
- ssesão
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of sessão - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "sessão", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).