início

noun

Letters

6 characters

Frequency Rank

#377

in Portuguese word usage

Misspellings

7

tracked variants

Confusables

10

similar word pairs

início is aPortuguesenoun. It means: começo It ranks #377 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with inimigo and invicto.

Key facts for início
PropertyValue
Headwordinício
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
Letters6
Frequency rank#377
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs10
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of início in Portuguese word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for início is 6 letters long, classified as anoun. Corpus data places it at rank #377 in overall Portuguese word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "começo".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for início, with forms such as "incíio", "innício", and "iníccio". 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 10 confusable-pair relationships, "inimigo", "invicto", "índio", 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 início, spelled I-N-Í-C-I-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    começo

Synonyms

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: incíio,innício,iníccio,inícoi,iníico,iíncio,niício

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for início

Misspelling Variants of "início"

incíio6innício7iníccio7inícoi6iníico6iíncio6niício6
Misspelling Variants of "início"

Frequency rank: #377 in Portuguese

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "início"?
"início" is spelled I-N-Í-C-I-O.
What does "início" mean?
As a noun, "início" means: começo
What words are commonly confused with "início"?
"início" is commonly confused with "inimigo", "invicto", "índio". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "início" come from?
"início" is a Portuguese word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Nearby Portuguese words

Other entries that begin with the letter I in our Portuguese index:

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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.