UNESCO

//juːˈnɛskoʊ// abbrev

Letters

6 characters

Frequency Rank

#5,800

in Portuguese word usage

Misspellings

8

tracked variants

Confusables

1

similar word pairs

UNESCO is anPortugueseabbrev. It means: sigla para Organização das Nações Unidas para a Educação, a Ciência e a Cultura Pronounced /juːˈnɛskoʊ/. It ranks #5,800 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with único.

Key facts for UNESCO
PropertyValue
HeadwordUNESCO
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechAbbrev
IPA/juːˈnɛskoʊ/
Letters6
Frequency rank#5,800
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs1
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for UNESCO is 6 letters long, classified as anabbrev, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /juːˈnɛskoʊ/. Corpus data places it at rank #5,800 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "sigla para Organização das Nações Unidas para a Educação, a Ciência e a Cultura".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for UNESCO, with forms such as "nuesco", "uensco", and "unecso". 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, "único", 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 UNESCO, spelled U-N-E-S-C-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    sigla para Organização das Nações Unidas para a Educação, a Ciência e a Cultura

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: nuesco,uensco,unecso,unescco,unesoc,unessco,unnesco,unseco

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for UNESCO

Misspelling Variants of "UNESCO"

nuesco6uensco6unecso6unescco7unesoc6unessco7unnesco7unseco6
Misspelling Variants of "UNESCO"

Frequency rank: #5,800 in Portuguese

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "UNESCO"?
"UNESCO" is spelled U-N-E-S-C-O. The IPA pronunciation is /juːˈnɛskoʊ/.
What does "UNESCO" mean?
As an abbrev, "UNESCO" means: sigla para Organização das Nações Unidas para a Educação, a Ciência e a Cultura
What words are commonly confused with "UNESCO"?
"UNESCO" is commonly confused with "único". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "UNESCO"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "UNESCO" is /juːˈnɛskoʊ/. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "UNESCO" come from?
"UNESCO" is a Portuguese word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.