vacância
The verdict
“vacância” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #61,276 among 501 “V” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,276
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 501
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - estado do que está vago
Corpus desk
Index PT-vacancia · vacância · Portuguese
vacância · rank #61,276 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,276
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 501
- PHOTO-FINISH vernáculo
Nearest frequency peer: vernáculo (+6 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Ranks da cauda longa perto de “vacância”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- tama
tama
38,749 corpus weight
- torrencial
torrencial
38,738 corpus weight
- transdutor
transdutor
38,735 corpus weight
- vacância
vacância
38,725 corpus weight
- vernáculo
vernáculo
38,719 corpus weight
- violentar
violentar
38,716 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “vacância” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | vacância |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #61,276 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “vacância” em português
Rare enough to double-check
vacância is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #61,276 among 501 “V” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "estado do que está vago".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for vacância, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Portuguese form is vacância, spelled V-A-C-Â-N-C-I-A.
Definition
- 1estado do que está vago
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how vacância appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Vagaram por sua morte bons lugares, que logo foram providos com o acerto que Sua Santidade costuma, sucedendo no Vicariato de Roma o Sr. Cardeal Altieri. A vacância do capelo tem muitos e muito dignos opositores, a quem se entende não será mui agradável a vinda do Sr. Bispo de Laon, que se esperava brevemente, e depois dele a do duque seu irmão, embaixado…
Synonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Portuguese corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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