Senegal
/se.ne.ˈgaw/
The verdict
“Senegal” has 10 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #11,964. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #11,964
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 2,603
- “S” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - país africano que faz fronteira com a Mauritânia, Mali, Guiné, Guiné-Bissau e Gâmbia; sua capital é Dacar/Dakar
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 | Senegal |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /se.ne.ˈgaw/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #11,964 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Senegal” sits in Portuguese frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around Senegal (IPA /se.ne.ˈgaw/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #11,964 among 2,603 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "país africano que faz fronteira com a Mauritânia, Mali, Guiné, Guiné-Bissau e Gâmbia; sua capital é Dacar/Dakar".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for Senegal, with forms such as "esnegal", "seengal", and "seneagl". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "sensual", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Portuguese form is Senegal, spelled S-E-N-E-G-A-L.
Definition
- 1país africano que faz fronteira com a Mauritânia, Mali, Guiné, Guiné-Bissau e Gâmbia; sua capital é Dacar/Dakar
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- esnegal
- seengal
- seneagl
- senegall
- seneggal
- senegla
- sengeal
- sennegal
- sneegal
- ssenegal
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Senegal - 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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Using “Senegal”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is S-E-N-E-G-A-L - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /se.ne.ˈgaw/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “sensual” - see the side-by-side comparison. Senegal vs sensual
- Browse more Portuguese words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Portuguese words
Same frequency band
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.