vontade

//võ.ˈta.dɨ// noun

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#692

in Portuguese word usage

Misspellings

10

tracked variants

Confusables

2

similar word pairs

vontade is aPortuguesenoun. It means: a faculdade de agir em consciência e deliberadamente; o poder de controle que a mente tem sobre suas próprias ações Pronounced /võ.ˈta.dɨ/. It ranks #692 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with votado and voltado.

Key facts for vontade
PropertyValue
Headwordvontade
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
IPA/võ.ˈta.dɨ/
Letters7
Frequency rank#692
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs2
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for vontade is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /võ.ˈta.dɨ/. Corpus data places it at rank #692 in overall Portuguese word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for vontade, with forms such as "ovntade", "vnotade", and "vonatde". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "votado", "voltado", 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 vontade, spelled V-O-N-T-A-D-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    a faculdade de agir em consciência e deliberadamente; o poder de controle que a mente tem sobre suas próprias ações
  2. 2
    desejo
  3. 3
    objetivo, determinação
  4. 4
    disposição, seja ela boa ou má, em relação a outrem
  5. 5
    nas tradições racionalistas, motivação subjetiva capaz de realizar de forma moral e refletida a ação humana, em oposição aos desejos e inclinações de caráter meramente afetivo
  6. 6
    nas tradições opostas ao racionalismo, impulso de natureza desejante ou emotiva com o qual o homem interage com o mundo objetivo

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: ovntade,vnotade,vonatde,vonntade,vontadde,vontaed,vontdae,vonttade,votnade,vvontade

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for vontade

Misspelling Variants of "vontade"

ovntade7vnotade7vonatde7vonntade8vontadde8vontaed7vontdae7vonttade8
Misspelling Variants of "vontade"

Frequency rank: #692 in Portuguese

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "vontade"?
"vontade" is spelled V-O-N-T-A-D-E. The IPA pronunciation is /võ.ˈta.dɨ/.
What does "vontade" mean?
As a noun, "vontade" means: a faculdade de agir em consciência e deliberadamente; o poder de controle que a mente tem sobre suas próprias ações
What words are commonly confused with "vontade"?
"vontade" is commonly confused with "votado", "voltado". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "vontade"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "vontade" is /võ.ˈta.dɨ/. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "vontade" come from?
"vontade" is a Portuguese word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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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.