menina
The verdict
“menina” is a regularly-used Portuguese word, ranked #1,015 in Portuguese word frequency and used as a noun.
- #1,015
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 6
- letters
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 10
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - criança do gênero feminino
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | menina |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #1,015 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “menina” sits in Portuguese frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for menina is 6 letters long, classified as a noun. Corpus data places it at rank #1,015 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for menina, with forms such as "emnina", "meinna", and "menian". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 10 confusable-pair relationships, "menta", "menino", "mentira", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Portuguese form is menina, spelled M-E-N-I-N-A.
Definition
- 1criança do gênero feminino
- 2adolescente ou mulher jovem do gênero feminino
- 3vocativo pessoal que se usa durante conversas
- 4usado para se chamar alguém do gênero feminino, sobretudo em funções de atendimento ao público (pode ser considerado ofensivo em algumas regiões)
- 5meretriz
- 6rapaz com jeitos afeminados
- 7vulva
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: emnina,meinna,menian,meninna,mennia,mennina,mmenina,mneina
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of menina - 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 “menina”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is M-E-N-I-N-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Don't mix it up with “menta” - see the side-by-side comparison. menina vs menta
- Browse more Portuguese words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Portuguese words
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.