wokismo

//wo(w)ˈkiʒ.mu// noun

Letters

7 characters

Language

Portuguese

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

wokismo is aPortuguesenoun. It means: movimento ou grupo de pessoas que estão cientes da gravidade das injustiças sociais existentes (principalmente com relação a questões de discriminação e racismo), agindo ativamente para combatê-las Pronounced /wo(w)ˈkiʒ.mu/.

Key facts for wokismo
PropertyValue
Headwordwokismo
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
IPA/wo(w)ˈkiʒ.mu/
Letters7
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

wokismo is not present in the top-100,000 ranked Portuguese corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for wokismo is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /wo(w)ˈkiʒ.mu/. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No misspelling variants are generated for wokismo in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Portuguese patterns.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

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 wokismo, spelled W-O-K-I-S-M-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    movimento ou grupo de pessoas que estão cientes da gravidade das injustiças sociais existentes (principalmente com relação a questões de discriminação e racismo), agindo ativamente para combatê-las
  2. 2
    movimento ou grupo de pessoas que promovem o politicamente correto e a cultura de cancelamento, defendendo propostas irracionais ou extremistas a partir de uma posição de superioridade moral

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "wokismo"?
"wokismo" is spelled W-O-K-I-S-M-O. The IPA pronunciation is /wo(w)ˈkiʒ.mu/.
What does "wokismo" mean?
As a noun, "wokismo" means: movimento ou grupo de pessoas que estão cientes da gravidade das injustiças sociais existentes (principalmente com relação a questões de discriminação e racismo), agindo ativamente para combatê-las
How do you pronounce "wokismo"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "wokismo" is /wo(w)ˈkiʒ.mu/. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "wokismo" come from?
"wokismo" 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. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.