maranhão
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#3,494
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
2
similar word pairs
maranhão is anPortugueseadj. It means: selvagem, montês, mui bravo Pronounced /ma.ɾa.'ɲoŋ/. It ranks #3,494 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with marinha and marinho.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | maranhão |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | /ma.ɾa.'ɲoŋ/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #3,494 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for maranhão is 8 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ma.ɾa.'ɲoŋ/. Corpus data places it at rank #3,494 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 generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for maranhão, with forms such as "amranhão", "maarnhão", and "marahnão". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "marinha", "marinho", 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 maranhão, spelled M-A-R-A-N-H-Ã-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1selvagem, montês, mui bravo
- 2depreciativo para uma mulher grossa e descuidada
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: amranhão,maarnhão,marahnão,maranhhão,maranhoã,marannhão,maranãho,marnahão,marranhão,mmaranhão,mraanhão
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for maranhão
Misspelling Variants of "maranhão"
Frequency rank: #3,494 in Portuguese
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