amnésia
/ɐm.ˈnɛ.zjɐ/
The verdict
“amnésia” has 9 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #18,501. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #18,501
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,900
- “A” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - perda completa ou parcial da memória, geralmente ocasionada por traumas físicos na região do cérebro, traumas psicológicos, ou alguma enfermidade que venha a atingir o tecido cerebral
Corpus desk
Index PT-amnesia · amnésia · Portuguese
amnésia · rank #18,501 · 9 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #18,501
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,900
- PHOTO-FINISH antecipar
Nearest frequency peer: antecipar (+1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Pares de rank junto ao íman ortográfico “amnésia”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- acabamento
acabamento
81,510 corpus weight
- admirado
admirado
81,506 corpus weight
- amnésia
amnésia
81,500 corpus weight
- antecipar
antecipar
81,499 corpus weight
- aplicável
aplicável
81,496 corpus weight
- brasa
brasa
81,480 corpus weight
What this shows “amnésia” está entre estes pares FrequencyWords; a profundidade de typo mede-se à parte no gráfico de distância de edição.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | amnésia |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ɐm.ˈnɛ.zjɐ/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #18,501 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “amnésia”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around amnésia (IPA /ɐm.ˈnɛ.zjɐ/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #18,501 among 1,900 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "perda completa ou parcial da memória, geralmente ocasionada por traumas físicos na região do cérebro, traumas psicológicos, ou alguma enfermidade que venha a atingir o tecido cerebral".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for amnésia, with forms such as "ammnésia", "amnnésia", and "amnséia". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "ânsia", "anemia", "apneia", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Portuguese form is amnésia, spelled A-M-N-É-S-I-A.
Definition
- 1perda completa ou parcial da memória, geralmente ocasionada por traumas físicos na região do cérebro, traumas psicológicos, ou alguma enfermidade que venha a atingir o tecido cerebral
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how amnésia appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Aquele homem sofre de amnésia.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ammnésia
- amnnésia
- amnséia
- amnéisa
- amnésai
- amnéssia
- aménsia
- anmésia
- manésia
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of amnésia - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Portuguese corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).