mentol

noun

Letters

6 characters

Frequency Rank

#70,422

in Portuguese word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

mentol is aPortuguesenoun. It means: composto orgânico cristalino, de fórmula química C₁₀H₂₀O, obtido principalmente da hortelã e responsável pela sensação de frescor característica

Key facts for mentol
PropertyValue
Headwordmentol
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
Letters6
Frequency rank#70,422
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for mentol is 6 letters long, classified as anoun. Corpus data places it at rank #70,422 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No misspelling variants are generated for mentol in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Portuguese patterns.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

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 mentol, spelled M-E-N-T-O-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    composto orgânico cristalino, de fórmula química C₁₀H₂₀O, obtido principalmente da hortelã e responsável pela sensação de frescor característica
  2. 2
    substância empregada em medicamentos, cosméticos e produtos de higiene, com efeito refrescante, analgésico e descongestionante

Frequency rank: #70,422 in Portuguese

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "mentol"?
"mentol" is spelled M-E-N-T-O-L.
What does "mentol" mean?
As a noun, "mentol" means: composto orgânico cristalino, de fórmula química C₁₀H₂₀O, obtido principalmente da hortelã e responsável pela sensação de frescor característica
What language does "mentol" come from?
"mentol" is a Portuguese word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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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.