mecânica
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#5,115
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
1
similar word pairs
mecânica is aPortuguesenoun. It means: ciência que estuda as forças e os movimentos bem como a teoria da ação das máquinas Pronounced /meˈkɐ̃.ni.kɐ/. It ranks #5,115 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with melanina.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mecânica |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /meˈkɐ̃.ni.kɐ/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #5,115 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for mecânica is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /meˈkɐ̃.ni.kɐ/. Corpus data places it at rank #5,115 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 mecânica, with forms such as "emcânica", "mceânica", and "meccânica". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "melanina", 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 mecânica, spelled M-E-C-Â-N-I-C-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1ciência que estuda as forças e os movimentos bem como a teoria da ação das máquinas
- 2mecanismo
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: emcânica,mceânica,meccânica,mecnâica,mecâinca,mecância,mecâniac,mecânicca,mecânnica,meâcnica,mmecânica
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for mecânica
Misspelling Variants of "mecânica"
Frequency rank: #5,115 in Portuguese
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Nearby Portuguese words
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