como um elefante em loja de cristais

phrase

The verdict

“como um elefante em loja de cristais” 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
36
letters

Dominant Wiktionary sense: que tendo força e desajeito causa desastre

Key facts for como um elefante em loja de cristais
PropertyValue
Headwordcomo um elefante em loja de cristais
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechPhrase
Letters36
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “como um elefante em loja de cristais” sits in Portuguese frequency

como um elefante em loja de cristais 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 como um elefante em loja de cristais is 36 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: "que tendo força e desajeito causa desastre".

No misspelling variants are generated for como um elefante em loja de cristais 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 como um elefante em loja de cristais, spelled C-O-M-O- -U-M- -E-L-E-F-A-N-T-E- -E-M- -L-O-J-A- -D-E- -C-R-I-S-T-A-I-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    que tendo força e desajeito causa desastre

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "como um elefante em loja de cristais"?
"como um elefante em loja de cristais" is spelled C-O-M-O- -U-M- -E-L-E-F-A-N-T-E- -E-M- -L-O-J-A- -D-E- -C-R-I-S-T-A-I-S.
What does "como um elefante em loja de cristais" mean?
As a phrase, "como um elefante em loja de cristais" means: que tendo força e desajeito causa desastre
What language does "como um elefante em loja de cristais" come from?
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Using “como um elefante em loja de cristais”

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

  • The one correct Portuguese spelling is C-O-M-O- -U-M- -E-L-E-F-A-N-T-E- -E-M- -L-O-J-A- -D-E- -C-R-I-S-T-A-I-S — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.