umbanda
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#21,035
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
1
similar word pairs
umbanda is aPortuguesenoun. It means: religião nascida no Rio de Janeiro, entre o fim do sXIX e o início do sXX, que originalmente congeminava elementos espíritas e bantos, estes já plasmados sobre elementos jeje-iorubas, e hoje aprese... Often confused with Uganda.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | umbanda |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #21,035 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for umbanda is 7 letters long, classified as anoun. Corpus data places it at rank #21,035 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for umbanda, with forms such as "mubanda", "ubmanda", and "umabnda". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "Uganda", 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 umbanda, spelled U-M-B-A-N-D-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1religião nascida no Rio de Janeiro, entre o fim do sXIX e o início do sXX, que originalmente congeminava elementos espíritas e bantos, estes já plasmados sobre elementos jeje-iorubas, e hoje apresenta-se segmentada em variados cultos caracterizados por influências muito diversas (p.ex., indigenistas, catolicistas, esotéricas, cabalísticas etc.)
- 2o mesmo que mubanda (Brachystegia spicaeformis)
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: mubanda,ubmanda,umabnda,umbadna,umbanad,umbandda,umbannda,umbbanda,umbnada,ummbanda
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for umbanda
Misspelling Variants of "umbanda"
Frequency rank: #21,035 in Portuguese
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