com um grão de sal
The verdict
“com um grão de sal” 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
- 18
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: com alguma ressalva ou com ceticismo, assumindo que há possibilidade de falha
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | com um grão de sal |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| Letters | 18 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “com um grão de sal” sits in Portuguese frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for com um grão de sal is 18 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. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "com alguma ressalva ou com ceticismo, assumindo que há possibilidade de falha".
No misspelling variants are generated for com um grão de sal 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 com um grão de sal, spelled C-O-M- -U-M- -G-R-Ã-O- -D-E- -S-A-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1com alguma ressalva ou com ceticismo, assumindo que há possibilidade de falha
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Using “com um grão de sal”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is C-O-M- -U-M- -G-R-Ã-O- -D-E- -S-A-L — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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