merengue
/mɨ.ˈɾẽ.ɡɨ/
The verdict
“merengue” has 11 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #29,044. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #29,044
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 2,261
- “M” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - bolo feito com claras de ovo batidas com açúcar e com recheio
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | merengue |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /mɨ.ˈɾẽ.ɡɨ/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #29,044 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “merengue” sits in Portuguese frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around merengue (IPA /mɨ.ˈɾẽ.ɡɨ/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #29,044 among 2,261 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "bolo feito com claras de ovo batidas com açúcar e com recheio".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for merengue, with forms such as "emrengue", "meerngue", and "meregnue". 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. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is merengue, spelled M-E-R-E-N-G-U-E.
Definition
- 1bolo feito com claras de ovo batidas com açúcar e com recheio
Synonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- emrengue
- meerngue
- meregnue
- merengeu
- merenggue
- merenngue
- merenuge
- mernegue
- merrengue
- mmerengue
- mreengue
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of merengue - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 “merengue”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is M-E-R-E-N-G-U-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /mɨ.ˈɾẽ.ɡɨ/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more Portuguese words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Portuguese words
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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.