vagina
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#8,702
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
7
similar word pairs
vagina is aPortuguesenoun. It means: canal do órgão sexual feminino dos mamíferos, que se estende desde o colo do útero à vulva e cujas funções são receber o pénis/pênis durante o coito e dar saída ao feto no momento do parto, assim c... Pronounced /vɐ.'ʒi.nɐ/. It ranks #8,702 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with vaia and valia.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | vagina |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /vɐ.'ʒi.nɐ/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #8,702 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for vagina is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /vɐ.'ʒi.nɐ/. Corpus data places it at rank #8,702 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for vagina, with forms such as "avgina", "vaggina", and "vagian". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 7 confusable-pair relationships, "vaia", "valia", "vigia", 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 vagina, spelled V-A-G-I-N-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1canal do órgão sexual feminino dos mamíferos, que se estende desde o colo do útero à vulva e cujas funções são receber o pénis/pênis durante o coito e dar saída ao feto no momento do parto, assim como expulsar o conteúdo menstrual
- 2membrana que envolve a base do pedúnculo de musgos
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: avgina,vaggina,vagian,vaginna,vagnia,vaigna,vgaina,vvagina
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for vagina
Misspelling Variants of "vagina"
Frequency rank: #8,702 in Portuguese
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