sensacionalismo
The verdict
“sensacionalismo” has 22 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #38,909. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #38,909
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 2,603
- “S” headwords
- 22
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - tendência ao sensacional
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sensacionalismo |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 15 |
| Frequency rank | #38,909 |
| Misspellings tracked | 22 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “sensacionalismo” sits in Portuguese frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 22 spelling variants around sensacionalismo, anoun. Corpus frequency is #38,909 among 2,603 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 22 likely wrong-spelling variants for sensacionalismo, with forms such as "esnsacionalismo", "senascionalismo", and "sennsacionalismo". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Portuguese form is sensacionalismo, spelled S-E-N-S-A-C-I-O-N-A-L-I-S-M-O.
Definition
- 1tendência ao sensacional
- 2apelo ao sensacional nos meios de comunicação, sem que haja uma preocupação com a veracidade dos fatos
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- esnsacionalismo
- senascionalismo
- sennsacionalismo
- sensaccionalismo
- sensacinoalismo
- sensacioanlismo
- sensacionailsmo
- sensacionalimso
- sensacionalismmo
- sensacionalisom
- sensacionalissmo
- sensacionallismo
- sensacionalsimo
- sensacionlaismo
- sensacionnalismo
- sensacoinalismo
- sensaiconalismo
- senscaionalismo
- senssacionalismo
- sesnacionalismo
- snesacionalismo
- ssensacionalismo
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of sensacionalismo - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 “sensacionalismo”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is S-E-N-S-A-C-I-O-N-A-L-I-S-M-O - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.