survival

//sɚ.ˈvaɪv.əl// noun

Letters

8 characters

Frequency Rank

#17,924

in Portuguese word usage

Misspellings

12

tracked variants

Confusables

1

similar word pairs

survival is aPortuguesenoun. It means: sobrevivência Pronounced /sɚ.ˈvaɪv.əl/. Often confused with serviçal.

Key facts for survival
PropertyValue
Headwordsurvival
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
IPA/sɚ.ˈvaɪv.əl/
Letters8
Frequency rank#17,924
Misspellings tracked12
Confusable pairs1
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of survival in Portuguese word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for survival is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /sɚ.ˈvaɪv.əl/. Corpus data places it at rank #17,924 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "sobrevivência".

Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for survival, with forms such as "sruvival", "ssurvival", and "surivval". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "serviçal", 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 survival, spelled S-U-R-V-I-V-A-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    sobrevivência

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: sruvival,ssurvival,surivval,surrvival,surviavl,survivall,survivla,survivval,survvial,survvival,suvrival,usrvival

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for survival

Misspelling Variants of "survival"

sruvival8ssurvival9surivval8surrvival9surviavl8survivall9survivla8survivval9
Misspelling Variants of "survival"

Frequency rank: #17,924 in Portuguese

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "survival"?
"survival" is spelled S-U-R-V-I-V-A-L. The IPA pronunciation is /sɚ.ˈvaɪv.əl/.
What does "survival" mean?
As a noun, "survival" means: sobrevivência
What words are commonly confused with "survival"?
"survival" is commonly confused with "serviçal". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "survival"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "survival" is /sɚ.ˈvaɪv.əl/. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "survival" come from?
"survival" is a Portuguese word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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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.