anorexia nervosa
The verdict
“anorexia nervosa” 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: condição mental e física em que o indivíduo, nutrindo uma obsessão patológica pelo emagrecimento, reduz drasticamente seu consumo calórico por meio de uma dieta rígida, vômitos autoinduzidos ou lax...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | anorexia nervosa |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | /ɐnoɾekˈsiːa nerˈvɔzɐ/ |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “anorexia nervosa” sits in Portuguese frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for anorexia nervosa is 16 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ɐnoɾekˈsiːa nerˈvɔzɐ/. 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: "condição mental e física em que o indivíduo, nutrindo uma obsessão patológica pelo emagrecimento, reduz drasticamente seu consumo calórico por meio de uma dieta rígida, vômitos autoinduzidos ou lax...".
No misspelling variants are generated for anorexia nervosa 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 anorexia nervosa, spelled A-N-O-R-E-X-I-A- -N-E-R-V-O-S-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1condição mental e física em que o indivíduo, nutrindo uma obsessão patológica pelo emagrecimento, reduz drasticamente seu consumo calórico por meio de uma dieta rígida, vômitos autoinduzidos ou laxantes
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Using “anorexia nervosa”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is A-N-O-R-E-X-I-A- -N-E-R-V-O-S-A — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ɐnoɾekˈsiːa nerˈvɔzɐ/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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