missão
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#965
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
7
similar word pairs
missão is aPortuguesenoun. It means: função ou poder que se confere a alguém para agir Pronounced /mi.ˈsɐ̃w̃/. It ranks #965 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with misto and míssil.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | missão |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /mi.ˈsɐ̃w̃/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #965 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for missão is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /mi.ˈsɐ̃w̃/. Corpus data places it at rank #965 in overall Portuguese word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for missão, with forms such as "imssão", "missoã", and "misão". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "misto", "míssil", "miss", 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 missão, spelled M-I-S-S-Ã-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1função ou poder que se confere a alguém para agir
- 2grupo de pessoas enviado para outro país para manter conversações políticas ou de negócios
- 3lugar onde os missionários vivem
- 4grupo de missionários
- 5tarefa operacional geralmente atribuída pelo quartel general
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: imssão,missoã,misão,misãso,mmissão,msisão
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for missão
Misspelling Variants of "missão"
Frequency rank: #965 in Portuguese
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