andrógeno
The verdict
“andrógeno” is an uncommon Portuguese word, ranked #87,900 in Portuguese word frequency and used as an adjective.
- #87,900
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 9
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: diz-se de substância que gera as características masculinas no ser humano
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | andrógeno |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #87,900 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “andrógeno” sits in Portuguese frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for andrógeno is 9 letters long, classified as an adjective. Corpus data places it at rank #87,900 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "diz-se de substância que gera as características masculinas no ser humano".
No misspelling variants are generated for andrógeno 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 andrógeno, spelled A-N-D-R-Ó-G-E-N-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1diz-se de substância que gera as características masculinas no ser humano
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Frequency rank: #87,900 in Portuguese
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Using “andrógeno”
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- The one correct Portuguese spelling is A-N-D-R-Ó-G-E-N-O — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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