banana
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#5,826
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
10
similar word pairs
banana is aPortuguesenoun. It means: fruto produzido pela bananeira Pronounced /bɐ.ˈnɐ.nɐ/. It ranks #5,826 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with banda and banca.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | banana |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /bɐ.ˈnɐ.nɐ/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #5,826 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for banana is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /bɐ.ˈnɐ.nɐ/. Corpus data places it at rank #5,826 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 5 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 banana, with forms such as "abnana", "baanna", and "banaan". 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 10 confusable-pair relationships, "banda", "banca", "banha", and more, 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 banana, spelled B-A-N-A-N-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1fruto produzido pela bananeira
- 2planta da qual se obtém a banana
- 3gesto ofensivo feito com a mão fechada e o braço dobrado enriste com o pulso do outro apoiado em seu bíceps
- 4cartucho que contém dinamite
- 5pênis
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: abnana,baanna,banaan,bananna,bannaa,bannana,bbanana,bnaana
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for banana
Misspelling Variants of "banana"
Frequency rank: #5,826 in Portuguese
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Nearby Portuguese words
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