menina
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,015
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
10
similar word pairs
menina is aPortuguesenoun. It means: criança do gênero feminino It ranks #1,015 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with menta and menino.
| 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) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for menina is 6 letters long, classified as anoun. 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 Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for menina, with forms such as "emnina", "meinna", and "menian". 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 10 confusable-pair relationships, "menta", "menino", "mentira", 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 menina, spelled M-E-N-I-N-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for menina
Misspelling Variants of "menina"
Frequency rank: #1,015 in Portuguese
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Nearby Portuguese words
Other entries that begin with the letter M in our Portuguese index: