menção
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#6,557
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
11
similar word pairs
menção is aPortuguesenoun. It means: ato de mencionar It ranks #6,557 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with moção and menta.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | menção |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #6,557 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for menção is 6 letters long, classified as anoun. Corpus data places it at rank #6,557 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "ato de mencionar".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for menção, with forms such as "emnção", "mennção", and "menãço". 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 11 confusable-pair relationships, "moção", "menta", "menino", 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 menção, spelled M-E-N-Ç-Ã-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1ato de mencionar
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: emnção,mennção,menãço,mençoã,meçnão,mmenção,mneção
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for menção
Misspelling Variants of "menção"
Frequency rank: #6,557 in Portuguese
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Nearby Portuguese words
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