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Brazil's education minister has been ridiculed on social media for making a spelling mistake on Twitter.

Abraham Weintraub, who is responsible for schools and universities in Latin America's biggest country, misspelled the Portuguese word for "amazing" in a tweet published Tuesday evening. Instead of "impressionante," Weintraub wrote "imprecionante."

"The fact that the education minister wrote 'imprecionante' reflects the reality of Brazilian education," wrote one Twitter user. Another quipped: "It's 'imprecionante' that he is the education minister." 

Weintraub later deleted the tweet. 

It was not his first public orthographical error. Weintraub has previously misspelled the Portuguese words like "suspension."