tensão
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,913
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
15
similar word pairs
tensão is aPortuguesenoun. It means: o ato ou efeito de esticar ou forçar algo ao seu limite Pronounced /tẽ.ˈsɐ.ɐ̃w̃/. It ranks #2,913 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with terão and tento.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tensão |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /tẽ.ˈsɐ.ɐ̃w̃/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #2,913 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 15 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for tensão is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /tẽ.ˈsɐ.ɐ̃w̃/. Corpus data places it at rank #2,913 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 5 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 tensão, with forms such as "etnsão", "tennsão", and "tensoã". 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 15 confusable-pair relationships, "terão", "tento", "tesão", 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 tensão, spelled T-E-N-S-Ã-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1o ato ou efeito de esticar ou forçar algo ao seu limite
- 2excitação mental ou física; suspense, ansiedade
- 3estado de oposição ou hostilidade latente entre indivíduos, grupos, nações, etc
- 4força que produz deformação longitudinal num corpo
- 5força eletromotiva; potencial
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: etnsão,tennsão,tensoã,tenssão,tenãso,tesnão,tnesão,ttensão
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for tensão
Misspelling Variants of "tensão"
Frequency rank: #2,913 in Portuguese
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Nearby Portuguese words
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