cleptomania
The verdict
“cleptomania” is outside the top-ranked Portuguese vocabulary, used as a noun — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Portuguese
- 11
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: doença psiquiátrica que provoca uma incapacidade de resistir ao impulso de furtar (geralmente objetos sem valor), sem muita consciência e frequentemente sem necessidade (código no CID-10: F63.2)
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cleptomania |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /klɛp.to.mɐ̃.ˈni.ɐ/ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “cleptomania” sits in Portuguese frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for cleptomania is 11 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /klɛp.to.mɐ̃.ˈni.ɐ/. 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: "doença psiquiátrica que provoca uma incapacidade de resistir ao impulso de furtar (geralmente objetos sem valor), sem muita consciência e frequentemente sem necessidade (código no CID-10: F63.2)".
No misspelling variants are generated for cleptomania 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 cleptomania, spelled C-L-E-P-T-O-M-A-N-I-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1doença psiquiátrica que provoca uma incapacidade de resistir ao impulso de furtar (geralmente objetos sem valor), sem muita consciência e frequentemente sem necessidade (código no CID-10: F63.2)
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Using “cleptomania”
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- The one correct Portuguese spelling is C-L-E-P-T-O-M-A-N-I-A — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /klɛp.to.mɐ̃.ˈni.ɐ/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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