marionete
The verdict
“marionete” has 12 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #29,815. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #29,815
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 2,261
- “M” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - boneco articulado controlado por fios que são presos por uma estrutura que normalmente fica sobre ele
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | marionete |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #29,815 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “marionete” sits in Portuguese frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around marionete, anoun. Corpus frequency is #29,815 among 2,261 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "boneco articulado controlado por fios que são presos por uma estrutura que normalmente fica sobre ele".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for marionete, with forms such as "amrionete", "maironete", and "marinoete". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "maionese", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Portuguese form is marionete, spelled M-A-R-I-O-N-E-T-E.
Definition
- 1boneco articulado controlado por fios que são presos por uma estrutura que normalmente fica sobre ele
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- amrionete
- maironete
- marinoete
- marioente
- marioneet
- marionette
- marionnete
- mariontee
- maroinete
- marrionete
- mmarionete
- mraionete
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of marionete - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Portuguese corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “marionete”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is M-A-R-I-O-N-E-T-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Don't mix it up with “maionese” - see the side-by-side comparison. marionete vs maionese
- Browse more Portuguese words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Portuguese words
Same frequency band
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.