abençôo

Portuguese, verb

abençôo is spelled A-B-E-N-Ç-Ô-O (7 letters) and appears about once in every 7 million words in written Portuguese, the 84,550th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Abençôo is a Portuguese verb meaning “pre-reform spelling (used until 1990) of abençoo; may still occur as a sporadic misspelling” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a cedilla, abençoo is a different word: “first-person singular present indicative of abençoar”.