televisão

noun

Letters

9 characters

Frequency Rank

#950

in Portuguese word usage

Misspellings

12

tracked variants

Confusables

2

similar word pairs

televisão is aPortuguesenoun. It means: tecnologia que permite a transmissão de imagem e som via ondas eletromagnéticas It ranks #950 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with televisor and televisivo.

Key facts for televisão
PropertyValue
Headwordtelevisão
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
Letters9
Frequency rank#950
Misspellings tracked12
Confusable pairs2
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for televisão is 9 letters long, classified as anoun. Corpus data places it at rank #950 in overall Portuguese word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for televisão, with forms such as "etlevisão", "teelvisão", and "teleivsão". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "televisor", "televisivo", 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 televisão, spelled T-E-L-E-V-I-S-Ã-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    tecnologia que permite a transmissão de imagem e som via ondas eletromagnéticas
  2. 2
    o aparelho usado para receber as ondas eletromagnéticas que trazem imagem e som e que posteriormente os reproduzem ao telespectador
  3. 3
    estação transmissora de ondas eletromagnéticas que transportam imagem e som

Synonyms

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: etlevisão,teelvisão,teleivsão,televisoã,televissão,televiãso,televsião,televvisão,tellevisão,telveisão,tleevisão,ttelevisão

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for televisão

Misspelling Variants of "televisão"

etlevisão9teelvisão9teleivsão9televisoã9televissão10televiãso9televsião9televvisão10
Misspelling Variants of "televisão"

Frequency rank: #950 in Portuguese

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "televisão"?
"televisão" is spelled T-E-L-E-V-I-S-Ã-O.
What does "televisão" mean?
As a noun, "televisão" means: tecnologia que permite a transmissão de imagem e som via ondas eletromagnéticas
What words are commonly confused with "televisão"?
"televisão" is commonly confused with "televisor", "televisivo". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "televisão" come from?
"televisão" is a Portuguese word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Nearby Portuguese words

Other entries that begin with the letter T in our Portuguese index:

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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.