instinto
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#13,112
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
12
tracked variants
Confusables
1
similar word pairs
instinto is aPortuguesenoun. It means: padrão inato de atividade ou tendência a um tipo de ação comum a uma certa espécie biológica Often confused with instante.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | instinto |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #13,112 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for instinto is 8 letters long, classified as anoun. Corpus data places it at rank #13,112 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for instinto, with forms such as "innstinto", "insitnto", and "insstinto". 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, "instante", 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 instinto, spelled I-N-S-T-I-N-T-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1padrão inato de atividade ou tendência a um tipo de ação comum a uma certa espécie biológica
- 2impulso, inclinação, tendência natural ou inata
- 3aptidão ou dom natural
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: innstinto,insitnto,insstinto,instinnto,instinot,instintto,institno,instnito,insttinto,intsinto,isntinto,nistinto
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for instinto
Misspelling Variants of "instinto"
Frequency rank: #13,112 in Portuguese
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Nearby Portuguese words
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