avoir l’esprit mal tourné

phrase

The verdict

“avoir l’esprit mal tourné” 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
25
letters

Dominant Wiktionary sense: ter a mente pervertida

Key facts for avoir l’esprit mal tourné
PropertyValue
Headwordavoir l’esprit mal tourné
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechPhrase
Letters25
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “avoir l’esprit mal tourné” sits in Portuguese frequency

avoir l’esprit mal tourné 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 avoir l’esprit mal tourné is 25 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. Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No misspelling variants are generated for avoir l’esprit mal tourné 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 avoir l’esprit mal tourné, spelled A-V-O-I-R- -L-’-E-S-P-R-I-T- -M-A-L- -T-O-U-R-N-É, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    ter a mente pervertida
  2. 2
    interpretar as coisas de maneira desfavorável, licenciosa ou escabrosa
  3. 3
    rebelar-se com mais ou menos veemência contra uma autoridade ou norma disciplinar

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "avoir l’esprit mal tourné"?
"avoir l’esprit mal tourné" is spelled A-V-O-I-R- -L-’-E-S-P-R-I-T- -M-A-L- -T-O-U-R-N-É.
What does "avoir l’esprit mal tourné" mean?
As a phrase, "avoir l’esprit mal tourné" means: ter a mente pervertida
What language does "avoir l’esprit mal tourné" come from?
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Using “avoir l’esprit mal tourné”

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

  • The one correct Portuguese spelling is A-V-O-I-R- -L-’-E-S-P-R-I-T- -M-A-L- -T-O-U-R-N-É — 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.