vítima
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,350
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
2
similar word pairs
vítima is aPortuguesenoun. It means: pessoa ou animal oferecida em sacrifício aos deuses ou num ritual religioso Pronounced /ˈvi.t͡ʃi.mɐ/. It ranks #1,350 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with vita and vigia.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | vítima |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈvi.t͡ʃi.mɐ/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #1,350 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for vítima is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈvi.t͡ʃi.mɐ/. Corpus data places it at rank #1,350 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 10 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for vítima, with forms such as "vtíima", "vvítima", and "víitma". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "vita", "vigia", 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 vítima, spelled V-Í-T-I-M-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1pessoa ou animal oferecida em sacrifício aos deuses ou num ritual religioso
- 2pessoa que foi arbitrariamente presa, torturada, violentada ou morta injustamente
- 3pessoa que é morta ou que sofre pela vontade de alguém
- 4pessoa que foi assassinada, ferida ou atingida casualmente, de modo criminoso, em legítima defesa ou por um acidente, catástrofe, revolução, etc.
- 5tudo aquilo que sofre algum dano ou prejuízo
- 6no direito penal, a parte passiva no ilícito criminal
- 7a pessoa que foi morta, ferida ou testemunha em uma epidemia, catástrofe, acidente, trauma coletivo, etc.
- 8a pessoa contra quem foi cometido um crime ou contravenção penal
- 9pessoa que é sacrificada aos interesses de outrem
- 10pessoa que sofre sem se rebelar; que sofre passivamente
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: vtíima,vvítima,víitma,vítiam,vítimma,vítmia,víttima,ívtima
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for vítima
Misspelling Variants of "vítima"
Frequency rank: #1,350 in Portuguese
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