meridiano
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#48,007
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
12
tracked variants
Confusables
1
similar word pairs
meridiano is aPortuguesenoun. It means: cada uma das semicircunferências imaginárias verticais de 180° que contém os polos e são perpendiculares à linha do equador; círculo de longitude Pronounced /mɨ.ɾi.ˈdjɐ.nu/. Often confused with mediano.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | meridiano |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /mɨ.ɾi.ˈdjɐ.nu/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #48,007 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for meridiano is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /mɨ.ɾi.ˈdjɐ.nu/. Corpus data places it at rank #48,007 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for meridiano, with forms such as "emridiano", "meirdiano", and "merdiiano". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "mediano", 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 meridiano, spelled M-E-R-I-D-I-A-N-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1cada uma das semicircunferências imaginárias verticais de 180° que contém os polos e são perpendiculares à linha do equador; círculo de longitude
- 2linhas imaginárias que ligam pontos energéticos do corpo
- 3círculos imaginários máximos da esfera celeste que passam por ambos os polos celestes
- 4plano que passa pelo eixo de uma superfície de revolução
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: emridiano,meirdiano,merdiiano,meridaino,meriddiano,meridianno,meridiaon,meridinao,meriidano,merridiano,mmeridiano,mreidiano
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Misspelling Variants of "meridiano"
Frequency rank: #48,007 in Portuguese
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