andar nos nervos

phrase

The verdict

“andar nos nervos” is outside the top-ranked Portuguese vocabulary, used as a phrase — the kind of word writers most often double-check.

Unranked
below top-frequency Portuguese
16
letters

Dominant Wiktionary sense: estar em um estado de irritação ou de irritabilidade aflorada já há algum tempo

Key facts for andar nos nervos
PropertyValue
Headwordandar nos nervos
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechPhrase
Letters16
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “andar nos nervos” sits in Portuguese frequency

andar nos nervos falls outside the top-100,000 ranked Portuguese words — the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for andar nos nervos is 16 letters long, classified as a phrase. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "estar em um estado de irritação ou de irritabilidade aflorada já há algum tempo".

No misspelling variants are generated for andar nos nervos 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 andar nos nervos, spelled A-N-D-A-R- -N-O-S- -N-E-R-V-O-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    estar em um estado de irritação ou de irritabilidade aflorada já há algum tempo

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "andar nos nervos"?
"andar nos nervos" is spelled A-N-D-A-R- -N-O-S- -N-E-R-V-O-S.
What does "andar nos nervos" mean?
As a phrase, "andar nos nervos" means: estar em um estado de irritação ou de irritabilidade aflorada já há algum tempo
What language does "andar nos nervos" come from?
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Using “andar nos nervos”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct Portuguese spelling is A-N-D-A-R- -N-O-S- -N-E-R-V-O-S — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.