bênção
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#9,809
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
10
similar word pairs
bênção is aPortuguesenoun. It means: ação de benzer ou abençoar Pronounced /bẽ.sɐ̃w̃/. It ranks #9,809 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with berço and betão.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bênção |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /bẽ.sɐ̃w̃/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #9,809 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for bênção is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /bẽ.sɐ̃w̃/. Corpus data places it at rank #9,809 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for bênção, with forms such as "bbênção", "bnêção", and "bênnção". 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, "berço", "betão", "Benta", 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 bênção, spelled B-Ê-N-Ç-Ã-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1ação de benzer ou abençoar
- 2ato de receber favor ou benefício divino ou de entidade espiritual, santo, etc
- 3na ritualística litúrgica católica, ato, em geral com o gestual do sinal-da-cruz, feito por sacerdote para invocar a graça divina
- 4na ritualística litúrgica católica, ato de aspergir com água benta algo ou alguém, feito por sacerdote com fim de consagração
- 5por extensão, fato que traz benefícios; acontecimento feliz
- 6chute frontal que atinge o oponente no abdômen, no peito ou no rosto
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: bbênção,bnêção,bênnção,bênãço,bênçoã,bêçnão,êbnção
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for bênção
Misspelling Variants of "bênção"
Frequency rank: #9,809 in Portuguese
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Nearby Portuguese words
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