ministério
Letters
10 characters
Frequency Rank
#742
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
14
tracked variants
Confusables
5
similar word pairs
ministério is aPortuguesenoun. It means: ocupação, ofício, profissão manual Pronounced /mɨ.niʃ.ˈtɛ.ɾju/. It ranks #742 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with ministro and mistério.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ministério |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /mɨ.niʃ.ˈtɛ.ɾju/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #742 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for ministério is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /mɨ.niʃ.ˈtɛ.ɾju/. Corpus data places it at rank #742 in overall Portuguese word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for ministério, with forms such as "imnistério", "miinstério", and "minisstério". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "ministro", "mistério", "monastério", and more, 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 ministério, spelled M-I-N-I-S-T-É-R-I-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1ocupação, ofício, profissão manual
- 2parte da administração do Estado, atribuída a cada ministro
- 3sacerdócio
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: imnistério,miinstério,minisstério,ministréio,ministtério,ministéiro,ministéroi,ministérrio,minisétrio,minitsério,minnistério,minsitério,mministério,mniistério
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for ministério
Misspelling Variants of "ministério"
Frequency rank: #742 in Portuguese
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Nearby Portuguese words
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