anfetamina

noun

The verdict

“anfetamina” is an uncommon Portuguese word, ranked #55,364 in Portuguese word frequency and used as a noun.

#55,364
frequency rank, Portuguese
10
letters

Dominant Wiktionary sense: substância simpatomimética que tem a estrutura química básica da beta-fenetilamina

Key facts for anfetamina
PropertyValue
Headwordanfetamina
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
Letters10
Frequency rank#55,364
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “anfetamina” sits in Portuguese frequency

Every-word frequency runs from the handful of words we use constantly (left) to the long tail used once in a blue moon (right). anfetamina lands here:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Scale is logarithmic (each tick is 10× rarer). Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for anfetamina is 10 letters long, classified as a noun. Corpus data places it at rank #55,364 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "substância simpatomimética que tem a estrutura química básica da beta-fenetilamina".

No misspelling variants are generated for anfetamina 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 anfetamina, spelled A-N-F-E-T-A-M-I-N-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    substância simpatomimética que tem a estrutura química básica da beta-fenetilamina

This word in other languages

Frequency rank: #55,364 in Portuguese

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "anfetamina"?
"anfetamina" is spelled A-N-F-E-T-A-M-I-N-A.
What does "anfetamina" mean?
As a noun, "anfetamina" means: substância simpatomimética que tem a estrutura química básica da beta-fenetilamina
What language does "anfetamina" come from?
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Using “anfetamina”

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

  • The one correct Portuguese spelling is A-N-F-E-T-A-M-I-N-A — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Browse more Portuguese words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Portuguese words

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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.