monção
/mõ.ˈsãw/
The verdict
“monção” has 7 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #38,382. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #38,382
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,087
- “M” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 12
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - ventos sazonais que ocorrem em grandes áreas das regiões costeiras tropicais e subtropicais, em geral associados à alternância entre a estação das chuvas e a estação seca
Corpus desk
Index PT-moncao · monção · Portuguese
monção · rank #38,382 · 7 variants · 12 confusables
- FREQ-MID #38,382
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 12 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,087
- PHOTO-FINISH monogamia
Nearest frequency peer: monogamia (-4 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Pares de rank junto ao íman ortográfico “monção”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- minado
minado
61,626 corpus weight
- monogamia
monogamia
61,623 corpus weight
- monção
monção
61,619 corpus weight
- nabo
nabo
61,614 corpus weight
- necrose
necrose
61,611 corpus weight
- numeroso
numeroso
61,601 corpus weight
What this shows “monção” está entre estes pares FrequencyWords; a profundidade de typo mede-se à parte no gráfico de distância de edição.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | monção |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /mõ.ˈsãw/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #38,382 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “monção”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around monção (IPA /mõ.ˈsãw/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #38,382 among 1,087 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for monção, with forms such as "mmonção", "mnoção", and "monnção". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 12 confusable-pair relationships, "mono", "monja", "montar", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Portuguese form is monção, spelled M-O-N-Ç-Ã-O.
Definition
- 1ventos sazonais que ocorrem em grandes áreas das regiões costeiras tropicais e subtropicais, em geral associados à alternância entre a estação das chuvas e a estação seca
- 2estação climática fortemente influenciada pelas monções¹, caracterizada por chuvas intensas
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- mmonção
- mnoção
- monnção
- monãço
- monçoã
- moçnão
- omnção
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of monção - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Portuguese corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).