amicus
The verdict
“amicus” is an uncommon Portuguese word, ranked #74,482 in Portuguese word frequency and used as an adjective.
- #74,482
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 6
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: amigável, amistoso
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | amicus |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /aˈmiː.kus/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #74,482 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “amicus” sits in Portuguese frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for amicus is 6 letters long, classified as an adjective, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /aˈmiː.kus/. Corpus data places it at rank #74,482 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for amicus 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 amicus, spelled A-M-I-C-U-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1amigável, amistoso
- 2agradável
- 3leal, fiel
Synonyms
Frequency rank: #74,482 in Portuguese
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Using “amicus”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is A-M-I-C-U-S — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /aˈmiː.kus/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more Portuguese words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Portuguese words
Nearby Portuguese words
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