menino

noun

Letters

6 characters

Frequency Rank

#1,437

in Portuguese word usage

Misspellings

8

tracked variants

Confusables

15

similar word pairs

menino is aPortuguesenoun. It means: criança ou adolescente do gênero masculino It ranks #1,437 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with mino and México.

Key facts for menino
PropertyValue
Headwordmenino
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
Letters6
Frequency rank#1,437
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs15
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of menino in Portuguese word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for menino is 6 letters long, classified as anoun. Corpus data places it at rank #1,437 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 3 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 menino, with forms such as "emnino", "meinno", and "meninno". 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 15 confusable-pair relationships, "mino", "México", "mínimo", 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 menino, spelled M-E-N-I-N-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    criança ou adolescente do gênero masculino
  2. 2
    indivíduo inocente, bobo, imaturo
  3. 3
    filho

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: emnino,meinno,meninno,menion,mennino,mennio,mmenino,mneino

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for menino

Misspelling Variants of "menino"

emnino6meinno6meninno7menion6mennino7mennio6mmenino7mneino6
Misspelling Variants of "menino"

Frequency rank: #1,437 in Portuguese

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "menino"?
"menino" is spelled M-E-N-I-N-O.
What does "menino" mean?
As a noun, "menino" means: criança ou adolescente do gênero masculino
What words are commonly confused with "menino"?
"menino" is commonly confused with "mino", "México", "mínimo". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "menino" come from?
"menino" is a Portuguese word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Nearby Portuguese words

Other entries that begin with the letter M in our Portuguese index:

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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.