débil mental
The verdict
“débil mental” 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
- 12
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: pessoa que apresenta debilidade mental
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | débil mental |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “débil mental” sits in Portuguese frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for débil mental is 12 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. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for débil mental 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 débil mental, spelled D-É-B-I-L- -M-E-N-T-A-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1pessoa que apresenta debilidade mental
- 2bobo, tonto
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Using “débil mental”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is D-É-B-I-L- -M-E-N-T-A-L — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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