mecenas
The verdict
“mecenas” has 10 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #29,820. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #29,820
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 2,261
- “M” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - aquele que protege artistas ou cientistas e/ou os financia
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mecenas |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #29,820 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “mecenas” sits in Portuguese frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around mecenas, anoun. Corpus frequency is #29,820 among 2,261 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "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 of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Portuguese form is mecenas, spelled M-E-C-E-N-A-S.
Definition
- 1aquele 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
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of mecenas - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 “mecenas”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is M-E-C-E-N-A-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.