alfazema

//aɫ.fɐ.ˈze.mɐ// noun

Letters

8 characters

Frequency Rank

#67,886

in Portuguese word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

alfazema is aPortuguesenoun. It means: Planta da família das Labiadas, com folhas estreitas quase cor de cinza e flores azuis - Lavandula spp. Pronounced /aɫ.fɐ.ˈze.mɐ/.

Key facts for alfazema
PropertyValue
Headwordalfazema
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
IPA/aɫ.fɐ.ˈze.mɐ/
Letters8
Frequency rank#67,886
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for alfazema is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /aɫ.fɐ.ˈze.mɐ/. Corpus data places it at rank #67,886 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Planta da família das Labiadas, com folhas estreitas quase cor de cinza e flores azuis - Lavandula spp.".

No misspelling variants are generated for alfazema in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Portuguese patterns.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 alfazema, spelled A-L-F-A-Z-E-M-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Planta da família das Labiadas, com folhas estreitas quase cor de cinza e flores azuis - Lavandula spp.

Frequency rank: #67,886 in Portuguese

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "alfazema"?
"alfazema" is spelled A-L-F-A-Z-E-M-A. The IPA pronunciation is /aɫ.fɐ.ˈze.mɐ/.
What does "alfazema" mean?
As a noun, "alfazema" means: Planta da família das Labiadas, com folhas estreitas quase cor de cinza e flores azuis - Lavandula spp.
How do you pronounce "alfazema"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "alfazema" is /aɫ.fɐ.ˈze.mɐ/. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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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.