meritocracia
Letters
12 characters
Frequency Rank
#34,367
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
17
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
meritocracia is aPortuguesenoun. It means: conjunto de ideias, adotado sobretudo pelo liberalismo econômico, segundo o qual o governo e cargos de comando devem ser exercidos por pessoas que obtiveram melhor educação, melhores resultados em ... Pronounced /me.ɾi.to.kɾaˈsi.ɐ/.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | meritocracia |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /me.ɾi.to.kɾaˈsi.ɐ/ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #34,367 |
| Misspellings tracked | 17 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for meritocracia is 12 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /me.ɾi.to.kɾaˈsi.ɐ/. Corpus data places it at rank #34,367 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 17 documented wrong-spelling variants for meritocracia, with forms such as "emritocracia", "meirtocracia", and "meriotcracia". 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 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 meritocracia, spelled M-E-R-I-T-O-C-R-A-C-I-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1conjunto de ideias, adotado sobretudo pelo liberalismo econômico, segundo o qual o governo e cargos de comando devem ser exercidos por pessoas que obtiveram melhor educação, melhores resultados em avaliações e, assim, demonstrarem ser mais capacitadas que as demais; governo por mérito, em oposição à democracia e outras formas de acesso ao poder
- 2sistema de contratação ou de promoção de empregados que tem por base o mérito e competência
- 3sistema de sociedade onde a mobilidade social é determinada pela capacidade de cada indivíduo
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: emritocracia,meirtocracia,meriotcracia,meritcoracia,meritocarcia,meritoccracia,meritocracai,meritocraccia,meritocraica,meritocrcaia,meritocrracia,meritorcacia,merittocracia,merritocracia,mertiocracia,mmeritocracia,mreitocracia
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for meritocracia
Misspelling Variants of "meritocracia"
Frequency rank: #34,367 in Portuguese
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