mente
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#990
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
mente is aPortuguesenoun. It means: conjunto das ideias e convicções de uma pessoa; o resultado do trabalho cerebral de uma pessoal, intangível mas perceptível em sua forma de raciocinar Pronounced /ˈmẽ.t͡ʃi/. It ranks #990 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with meta and menu.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mente |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈmẽ.t͡ʃi/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #990 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for mente is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈmẽ.t͡ʃi/. Corpus data places it at rank #990 in overall Portuguese word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for mente, with forms such as "emnte", "menet", and "mennte". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "meta", "menu", "mine", 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 mente, spelled M-E-N-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1conjunto das ideias e convicções de uma pessoa; o resultado do trabalho cerebral de uma pessoal, intangível mas perceptível em sua forma de raciocinar
- 2a produção do raciocínio, da criatividade de alguém
- 3a vontade que alguém manifesta
- 4a memória, as lembranças de alguém
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: emnte,menet,mennte,mentte,metne,mmente,mnete
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for mente
Misspelling Variants of "mente"
Frequency rank: #990 in Portuguese
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Nearby Portuguese words
Other entries that begin with the letter M in our Portuguese index: