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
- 1,087
- “M” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - bolo feito com claras de ovo batidas com açúcar e com recheio
Corpus desk
Index PT-merengue · merengue · Portuguese
merengue · rank #29,044 · 11 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #29,044
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,087
- PHOTO-FINISH militarmente
Nearest frequency peer: militarmente (+4 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Pares de rank junto ao íman ortográfico “merengue”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- maleta
maleta
70,965 corpus weight
- mamã
mamã
70,964 corpus weight
- merengue
merengue
70,957 corpus weight
- militarmente
militarmente
70,953 corpus weight
- minucioso
minucioso
70,950 corpus weight
- mitigar
mitigar
70,948 corpus weight
What this shows “merengue” está entre estes pares FrequencyWords; a profundidade de typo mede-se à parte no gráfico de distância de edição.
| 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) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “merengue”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around merengue (IPA /mɨ.ˈɾẽ.ɡɨ/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #29,044 among 1,087 “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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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "merengue", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).