memória
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,249
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
5
similar word pairs
memória is aPortuguesenoun. It means: faculdade de conservar e reproduzir as ideias, imagens ou conhecimentos anteriormente adquiridos Pronounced /mɨ.ˈmɔ.ɾjɐ/. It ranks #1,249 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with memory and memorial.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | memória |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /mɨ.ˈmɔ.ɾjɐ/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #1,249 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for memória is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /mɨ.ˈmɔ.ɾjɐ/. Corpus data places it at rank #1,249 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for memória, with forms such as "emmória", "memmória", and "memróia". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "memory", "memorial", "memorizar", 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 memória, spelled M-E-M-Ó-R-I-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1faculdade de conservar e reproduzir as ideias, imagens ou conhecimentos anteriormente adquiridos
- 2a lembrança de qualquer coisa ou alguém
- 3reminiscência
- 4recordação
- 5parte do computador que armazena as informações
- 6celebração do ano litúrgico de grau inferior à solenidade e à festa (festejo ou festividade)
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: emmória,memmória,memróia,memóira,memórai,memórria,meómria,mmemória,mmeória
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for memória
Misspelling Variants of "memória"
Frequency rank: #1,249 in Portuguese
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Nearby Portuguese words
Other entries that begin with the letter M in our Portuguese index: