ensaio
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#3,472
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
4
similar word pairs
ensaio is aPortuguesenoun. It means: meio empregado para testar se algo convém ao fim a que se destina Pronounced /ẽ.ˈsaj.u/. It ranks #3,472 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with então and envio.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ensaio |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ẽ.ˈsaj.u/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #3,472 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for ensaio is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ẽ.ˈsaj.u/. Corpus data places it at rank #3,472 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for ensaio, with forms such as "enasio", "ennsaio", and "ensaoi". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "então", "envio", "engano", 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 ensaio, spelled E-N-S-A-I-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1meio empregado para testar se algo convém ao fim a que se destina
- 2primeira prova
- 3execução preparatória de uma peça musical, teatral ou outra
- 4obra literária em que se analisam ideias profundamente meditadas
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: enasio,ennsaio,ensaoi,ensiao,enssaio,esnaio,nesaio
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for ensaio
Misspelling Variants of "ensaio"
Frequency rank: #3,472 in Portuguese
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