vacância

noun

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

corpus weight

What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “vacância” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for vacância
PropertyValue
Headwordvacância
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
Letters8
Frequency rank#61,276
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Cauda longa: rank de “vacância” em português

Esta escala corre do núcleo do português quotidiano (esquerda) até o rastro de formas raras (direita).vacânciacai nesta cauda de raridade:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

A escala é logarítmica (cada marca ≈ 10× mais rara). Vizinhos raros da mesma faixa: “vernáculo” (#61,282), “violentar” (#61,285), “transdutor” (#61,266). Entre 501 lemas com “V”, “vacância” fica em #61,276. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    estado do que está vago

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how vacância appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. 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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "vacância"?
"vacância" is spelled V-A-C-Â-N-C-I-A.
What does "vacância" mean?
As a noun, "vacância" means: estado do que está vago
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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "vacância", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list