diafragma
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#27,451
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
13
tracked variants
Confusables
1
similar word pairs
diafragma is aPortuguesenoun. It means: dispositivo que regula a intensidade luminosa das imagens dos aparelhos de óptica pela variação da abertura Pronounced /djɐ.ˈfɾaɡ.mɐ/. Often confused with diagrama.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | diafragma |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /djɐ.ˈfɾaɡ.mɐ/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #27,451 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for diafragma is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /djɐ.ˈfɾaɡ.mɐ/. Corpus data places it at rank #27,451 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 13 documented wrong-spelling variants for diafragma, with forms such as "daifragma", "ddiafragma", and "diafargma". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "diagrama", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 diafragma, spelled D-I-A-F-R-A-G-M-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1dispositivo que regula a intensidade luminosa das imagens dos aparelhos de óptica pela variação da abertura
- 2músculo que nos mamíferos separa a cavidade torácica da abdominal
- 3membrana vibratória de alguns aparelhos acústicos
- 4septo membranoso de alguns órgãos vegetais
- 5dispositivo anticoncepcional que se instala dentro da vagina
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: daifragma,ddiafragma,diafargma,diaffragma,diafragam,diafraggma,diafragmma,diaframga,diafrgama,diafrragma,diarfagma,difaragma,idafragma
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for diafragma
Misspelling Variants of "diafragma"
Frequency rank: #27,451 in Portuguese
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