cânfora
The verdict
“cânfora” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #68,733 among 3,948 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,733
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 3,948
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - substância branca usada na medicina e com aplicações industriais
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cânfora |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #68,733 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “cânfora” sits in Portuguese frequency
Rare enough to double-check
cânfora is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #68,733 among 3,948 “C” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "substância branca usada na medicina e com aplicações industriais".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for cânfora, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Portuguese rules. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is cânfora, spelled C-Â-N-F-O-R-A.
Definition
- 1substância branca usada na medicina e com aplicações industriais
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Portuguese corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “cânfora”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is C-Â-N-F-O-R-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.