telefonia

//tɨ.lɨ.fu.ˈni.ɐ// noun

Letters

9 characters

Frequency Rank

#7,981

in Portuguese word usage

Misspellings

12

tracked variants

Confusables

2

similar word pairs

telefonia is aPortuguesenoun. It means: sistema de transmissão de vozes a distância via cabos, fios ou ondas hertzianas Pronounced /tɨ.lɨ.fu.ˈni.ɐ/. It ranks #7,981 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with telefone and telefonar.

Key facts for telefonia
PropertyValue
Headwordtelefonia
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
IPA/tɨ.lɨ.fu.ˈni.ɐ/
Letters9
Frequency rank#7,981
Misspellings tracked12
Confusable pairs2
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for telefonia is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /tɨ.lɨ.fu.ˈni.ɐ/. Corpus data places it at rank #7,981 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "sistema de transmissão de vozes a distância via cabos, fios ou ondas hertzianas".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for telefonia, with forms such as "etlefonia", "teelfonia", and "teleffonia". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "telefone", "telefonar", 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 telefonia, spelled T-E-L-E-F-O-N-I-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    sistema de transmissão de vozes a distância via cabos, fios ou ondas hertzianas

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: etlefonia,teelfonia,teleffonia,telefnoia,telefoina,telefonai,telefonnia,teleofnia,telfeonia,tellefonia,tleefonia,ttelefonia

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for telefonia

Misspelling Variants of "telefonia"

etlefonia9teelfonia9teleffonia10telefnoia9telefoina9telefonai9telefonnia10teleofnia9
Misspelling Variants of "telefonia"

Frequency rank: #7,981 in Portuguese

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "telefonia"?
"telefonia" is spelled T-E-L-E-F-O-N-I-A. The IPA pronunciation is /tɨ.lɨ.fu.ˈni.ɐ/.
What does "telefonia" mean?
As a noun, "telefonia" means: sistema de transmissão de vozes a distância via cabos, fios ou ondas hertzianas
What words are commonly confused with "telefonia"?
"telefonia" is commonly confused with "telefone", "telefonar". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "telefonia"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "telefonia" is /tɨ.lɨ.fu.ˈni.ɐ/. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "telefonia" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.