mecenas

noun

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#29,820

in Portuguese word usage

Misspellings

10

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

mecenas is aPortuguesenoun. It means: aquele que protege artistas ou cientistas e/ou os financia

Key facts for mecenas
PropertyValue
Headwordmecenas
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
Letters7
Frequency rank#29,820
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of mecenas in Portuguese word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for mecenas is 7 letters long, classified as anoun. Corpus data places it at rank #29,820 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "aquele que protege artistas ou cientistas e/ou os financia".

Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for mecenas, with forms such as "emcenas", "mceenas", and "meccenas". 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 is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

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 mecenas, spelled M-E-C-E-N-A-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    aquele que protege artistas ou cientistas e/ou os financia

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: emcenas,mceenas,meccenas,meceans,mecenass,mecennas,mecensa,mecneas,meecnas,mmecenas

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for mecenas

Misspelling Variants of "mecenas"

emcenas7mceenas7meccenas8meceans7mecenass8mecennas8mecensa7mecneas7
Misspelling Variants of "mecenas"

Frequency rank: #29,820 in Portuguese

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "mecenas"?
"mecenas" is spelled M-E-C-E-N-A-S.
What does "mecenas" mean?
As a noun, "mecenas" means: aquele que protege artistas ou cientistas e/ou os financia
What are common misspellings of "mecenas"?
Common misspellings include "emcenas", "mceenas", "meccenas", "meceans", "mecenass". The correct spelling is "mecenas".
What language does "mecenas" come from?
"mecenas" is a Portuguese word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Nearby Portuguese words

Other entries that begin with the letter M in our Portuguese index:

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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.