violência

//vju.ˈlẽ.sjɐ// noun

Letters

9 characters

Frequency Rank

#1,414

in Portuguese word usage

Misspellings

12

tracked variants

Confusables

4

similar word pairs

violência is aPortuguesenoun. It means: força intensa e repentina Pronounced /vju.ˈlẽ.sjɐ/. It ranks #1,414 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with vivência and vigência.

Key facts for violência
PropertyValue
Headwordviolência
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
IPA/vju.ˈlẽ.sjɐ/
Letters9
Frequency rank#1,414
Misspellings tracked12
Confusable pairs4
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of violência in Portuguese word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for violência is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /vju.ˈlẽ.sjɐ/. Corpus data places it at rank #1,414 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for violência, with forms such as "ivolência", "viloência", and "viollência". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "vivência", "vigência", "valência", 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 violência, spelled V-I-O-L-Ê-N-C-I-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    força intensa e repentina
  2. 2
    força física, ação ou tratamento que causa danos
  3. 3
    o ato ou efeito de ser violento

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: ivolência,viloência,viollência,violnêcia,violêcnia,violêncai,violênccia,violênica,violênncia,vioêlncia,voilência,vviolência

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for violência

Misspelling Variants of "violência"

ivolência9viloência9viollência10violnêcia9violêcnia9violêncai9violênccia10violênica9
Misspelling Variants of "violência"

Frequency rank: #1,414 in Portuguese

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "violência"?
"violência" is spelled V-I-O-L-Ê-N-C-I-A. The IPA pronunciation is /vju.ˈlẽ.sjɐ/.
What does "violência" mean?
As a noun, "violência" means: força intensa e repentina
What words are commonly confused with "violência"?
"violência" is commonly confused with "vivência", "vigência", "valência". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "violência"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "violência" is /vju.ˈlẽ.sjɐ/. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "violência" come from?
"violência" is a Portuguese word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Nearby Portuguese words

Other entries that begin with the letter V in our Portuguese index:

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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.