máxima
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#3,092
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
9
similar word pairs
máxima is aPortuguesenoun. It means: a expressão de uma verdade ou princípio geral, especialmente uma com tom moral ou aforístico Pronounced /ˈma.si.mɐ/. It ranks #3,092 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with máximo and maia.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | máxima |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈma.si.mɐ/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #3,092 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for máxima is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈma.si.mɐ/. Corpus data places it at rank #3,092 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for máxima, with forms such as "mmáxima", "mxáima", and "máixma". 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 9 confusable-pair relationships, "máximo", "maia", "mamã", 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 máxima, spelled M-Á-X-I-M-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1a expressão de uma verdade ou princípio geral, especialmente uma com tom moral ou aforístico
- 2um princípio ou regra de conduta, sentença moral
- 3axioma
- 4antiga figura musical com o valor de oito semibreves
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: mmáxima,mxáima,máixma,máxiam,máximma,máxmia,máxxima,ámxima
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for máxima
Misspelling Variants of "máxima"
Frequency rank: #3,092 in Portuguese
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