movimento

//mu.vi.ˈmẽ.tu// noun

Letters

9 characters

Frequency Rank

#607

in Portuguese word usage

Misspellings

13

tracked variants

Confusables

4

similar word pairs

movimento is aPortuguesenoun. It means: ato ou efeito de mover(-se) Pronounced /mu.vi.ˈmẽ.tu/. It ranks #607 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with momento and monumento.

Key facts for movimento
PropertyValue
Headwordmovimento
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
IPA/mu.vi.ˈmẽ.tu/
Letters9
Frequency rank#607
Misspellings tracked13
Confusable pairs4
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of movimento in Portuguese word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for movimento is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /mu.vi.ˈmẽ.tu/. Corpus data places it at rank #607 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 Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 13 documented wrong-spelling variants for movimento, with forms such as "mmovimento", "moivmento", and "moviemnto". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "momento", "monumento", "movimentar", 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 movimento, spelled M-O-V-I-M-E-N-T-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    ato ou efeito de mover(-se)
  2. 2
    estado em que um corpo muda de lugar ou de posição
  3. 3
    andamento musical, vivo e animado
  4. 4
    deslocação
  5. 5
    atividade

Synonyms

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: mmovimento,moivmento,moviemnto,movimennto,movimenot,movimentto,movimetno,movimmento,movimneto,movmiento,movvimento,mvoimento,omvimento

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for movimento

Misspelling Variants of "movimento"

mmovimento10moivmento9moviemnto9movimennto10movimenot9movimentto10movimetno9movimmento10
Misspelling Variants of "movimento"

Frequency rank: #607 in Portuguese

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "movimento"?
"movimento" is spelled M-O-V-I-M-E-N-T-O. The IPA pronunciation is /mu.vi.ˈmẽ.tu/.
What does "movimento" mean?
As a noun, "movimento" means: ato ou efeito de mover(-se)
What words are commonly confused with "movimento"?
"movimento" is commonly confused with "momento", "monumento", "movimentar". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "movimento"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "movimento" is /mu.vi.ˈmẽ.tu/. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "movimento" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.