vacância
The verdict
“vacância” is an uncommon Portuguese word, ranked #61,276 in Portuguese word frequency and used as a noun.
- #61,276
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - estado do que está vago
| 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) |
Where “vacância” sits in Portuguese frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for vacância is 8 letters long, classified as a noun. Corpus data places it at rank #61,276 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "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
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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Using “vacância”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is V-A-C-Â-N-C-I-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.