meritocrata

//me.ɾi.toˈkɾa.tɐ// noun

Letters

11 characters

Language

Portuguese

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

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meritocrata is aPortuguesenoun. It means: defensor ou adepto da meritocracia Pronounced /me.ɾi.toˈkɾa.tɐ/.

Key facts for meritocrata
PropertyValue
Headwordmeritocrata
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
IPA/me.ɾi.toˈkɾa.tɐ/
Letters11
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

meritocrata is not present in the top-100,000 ranked Portuguese corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for meritocrata is 11 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /me.ɾi.toˈkɾa.tɐ/. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No misspelling variants are generated for meritocrata 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 meritocrata, spelled M-E-R-I-T-O-C-R-A-T-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    defensor ou adepto da meritocracia
  2. 2
    pessoa que, alegadamente, ocupa um cargo por mérito

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "meritocrata"?
"meritocrata" is spelled M-E-R-I-T-O-C-R-A-T-A. The IPA pronunciation is /me.ɾi.toˈkɾa.tɐ/.
What does "meritocrata" mean?
As a noun, "meritocrata" means: defensor ou adepto da meritocracia
How do you pronounce "meritocrata"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "meritocrata" is /me.ɾi.toˈkɾa.tɐ/. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "meritocrata" come from?
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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.