sensacional

//sẽ.sɐ.sju.ˈnaɫ// adj

Letters

11 characters

Frequency Rank

#9,580

in Portuguese word usage

Misspellings

16

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

sensacional is anPortugueseadj. It means: relativo a sensação; que produz grande sensação Pronounced /sẽ.sɐ.sju.ˈnaɫ/. It ranks #9,580 in Portuguese word frequency.

Key facts for sensacional
PropertyValue
Headwordsensacional
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechAdj
IPA/sẽ.sɐ.sju.ˈnaɫ/
Letters11
Frequency rank#9,580
Misspellings tracked16
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for sensacional is 11 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /sẽ.sɐ.sju.ˈnaɫ/. Corpus data places it at rank #9,580 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "relativo a sensação; que produz grande sensação".

Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for sensacional, with forms such as "esnsacional", "senascional", and "sennsacional". 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 sensacional, spelled S-E-N-S-A-C-I-O-N-A-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    relativo a sensação; que produz grande sensação

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: esnsacional,senascional,sennsacional,sensaccional,sensacinoal,sensacioanl,sensacionall,sensacionla,sensacionnal,sensacoinal,sensaiconal,senscaional,senssacional,sesnacional,snesacional,ssensacional

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for sensacional

Misspelling Variants of "sensacional"

esnsacional11senascional11sennsacional12sensaccional12sensacinoal11sensacioanl11sensacionall12sensacionla11
Misspelling Variants of "sensacional"

Frequency rank: #9,580 in Portuguese

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "sensacional"?
"sensacional" is spelled S-E-N-S-A-C-I-O-N-A-L. The IPA pronunciation is /sẽ.sɐ.sju.ˈnaɫ/.
What does "sensacional" mean?
As an adj, "sensacional" means: relativo a sensação; que produz grande sensação
What are common misspellings of "sensacional"?
Common misspellings include "esnsacional", "senascional", "sennsacional", "sensaccional", "sensacinoal". The correct spelling is "sensacional".
How do you pronounce "sensacional"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "sensacional" is /sẽ.sɐ.sju.ˈnaɫ/. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "sensacional" come from?
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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.