união
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#815
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
8
similar word pairs
união is aPortuguesenoun. It means: ato ou resultado de unir-se Pronounced /u.ˈnjɐ̃w̃/. It ranks #815 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with uno and unir.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | união |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /u.ˈnjɐ̃w̃/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #815 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for união is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /u.ˈnjɐ̃w̃/. Corpus data places it at rank #815 in overall Portuguese word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for união, with forms such as "nuião", "uinão", and "unioã". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "uno", "unir", "unit", 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 união, spelled U-N-I-Ã-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1ato ou resultado de unir-se
- 2casamento
- 3operação entre dois conjuntos que resulta num outro que contém todos os elementos contidos nos dois iniciais
- 4pacto
- 5vínculo
- 6peça que serve para a conexão, comunicação, de duas ou mais outras peças
- 7associação
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: nuião,uinão,unioã,unnião,unãio
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for união
Misspelling Variants of "união"
Frequency rank: #815 in Portuguese
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Nearby Portuguese words
Other entries that begin with the letter U in our Portuguese index: