metonímia

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for metonímia is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /mɨ.tu.ˈni.mjɐ/. Corpus data places it at rank #96,951 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "figura de linguagem que substitui um elemento pela citação de outro que lhe está relacionado (por exemplo: "sem teto", para alguém que não possui uma casa)".

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