de acordo com
The verdict
“de acordo com” is uncommon Portuguese (outside the top frequency list), classed as a phrase. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Portuguese
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - conforme, segundo
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | de acordo com |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “de acordo com” sits in Portuguese frequency
Rare enough to double-check
de acordo com is uncommon Portuguese outside the top frequency list, classed as aphrase. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
de acordo com doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular Portuguese conventions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Portuguese form is de acordo com, spelled D-E- -A-C-O-R-D-O- -C-O-M.
Definition
- 1conforme, segundo
- 2em conformidade com
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “de acordo com”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is D-E- -A-C-O-R-D-O- -C-O-M - 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.