promessa
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#3,715
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
3
similar word pairs
promessa is aPortuguesenoun. It means: ação de prometer Pronounced /pɾu.ˈmɛ.sɐ/. It ranks #3,715 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with pressa and processo.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | promessa |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /pɾu.ˈmɛ.sɐ/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #3,715 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for promessa is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /pɾu.ˈmɛ.sɐ/. Corpus data places it at rank #3,715 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for promessa, with forms such as "pormessa", "ppromessa", and "prmoessa". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "pressa", "processo", "premissa", 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 promessa, spelled P-R-O-M-E-S-S-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1ação de prometer
- 2o que se promete
- 3compromisso de fazer algo
- 4contrato
- 5juramento feito a Deus ou aos santos para conseguir uma graça
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: pormessa,ppromessa,prmoessa,proemssa,promesa,promesas,prommessa,promsesa,prromessa,rpomessa
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "promessa"
Frequency rank: #3,715 in Portuguese
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