necessário

adj

Letters

10 characters

Frequency Rank

#1,124

in Portuguese word usage

Misspellings

12

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

necessário is anPortugueseadj. It means: aquilo que é essencial ou indispensável It ranks #1,124 in Portuguese word frequency.

Key facts for necessário
PropertyValue
Headwordnecessário
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechAdj
Letters10
Frequency rank#1,124
Misspellings tracked12
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for necessário is 10 letters long, classified as anadj. Corpus data places it at rank #1,124 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for necessário, with forms such as "encessário", "nceessário", and "neccessário". 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 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 necessário, spelled N-E-C-E-S-S-Á-R-I-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    aquilo que é essencial ou indispensável
  2. 2
    aquilo que acontece ou existe por necessidade

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: encessário,nceessário,neccessário,necessráio,necessáiro,necessároi,necessárrio,necesário,necesásrio,necsesário,neecssário,nnecessário

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for necessário

Misspelling Variants of "necessário"

encessário10nceessário10neccessário11necessráio10necessáiro10necessároi10necessárrio11necesário9
Misspelling Variants of "necessário"

Frequency rank: #1,124 in Portuguese

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "necessário"?
"necessário" is spelled N-E-C-E-S-S-Á-R-I-O.
What does "necessário" mean?
As an adj, "necessário" means: aquilo que é essencial ou indispensável
What are common misspellings of "necessário"?
Common misspellings include "encessário", "nceessário", "neccessário", "necessráio", "necessáiro". The correct spelling is "necessário".
What language does "necessário" come from?
"necessário" is a Portuguese word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.