essencial
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#3,684
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
1
similar word pairs
essencial is anPortugueseadj. It means: relativo à essência, ao fundamental It ranks #3,684 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with essência.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | essencial |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #3,684 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for essencial is 9 letters long, classified as anadj. Corpus data places it at rank #3,684 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for essencial, with forms such as "esencial", "esesncial", and "essecnial". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "essência", 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 essencial, spelled E-S-S-E-N-C-I-A-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1relativo à essência, ao fundamental
- 2muito necessário ou indispensável
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: esencial,esesncial,essecnial,essencail,essenccial,essenciall,essencila,essenical,essenncial,essnecial,sesencial
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for essencial
Misspelling Variants of "essencial"
Frequency rank: #3,684 in Portuguese
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